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Evolutionary Psychopathology - A Unified Approach (Hardcover)
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Evolutionary Psychopathology - A Unified Approach (Hardcover)
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Mental disorders arise from neural and psychological mechanisms
that have been built and shaped by natural selection across our
evolutionary history. Looking at psychopathology through the lens
of evolution is the only way to understand the deeper nature of
mental disorders and turn a mass of behavioral, genetic, and
neurobiological findings into a coherent, theoretically grounded
discipline. The rise of evolutionary psychopathology is part of an
exciting scientific movement in psychology and medicine - a
movement that is fundamentally transforming the way we think about
health and disease. Evolutionary Psychopathology takes steps toward
a unified approach to psychopathology, using the concepts of life
history theory - a biological account of how individual differences
in development, physiology and behavior arise from tradeoffs in
survival and reproduction - to build an integrative framework for
mental disorders. This book reviews existing evolutionary models of
specific conditions and connects them in a broader perspective,
with the goal of explaining the large-scale patterns of risk and
comorbidity that characterize psychopathology. Using the life
history framework allows for a seamless integration of mental
disorders with normative individual differences in personality and
cognition, and offers new conceptual tools for the analysis of
developmental, genetic, and neurobiological data. The concepts
presented in Evolutionary Psychopathology are used to derive a new
taxonomy of mental disorders, the Fast-Slow-Defense (FSD) model.
The FSD model is the first classification system explicitly based
on evolutionary concepts, a biologically grounded alternative to
transdiagnostic models. The book reviews a wide range of common
mental disorders, discusses their classification in the FSD model,
and identifies functional subtypes within existing diagnostic
categories.
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