How Sadness Survived: The Evolutionary Basis of Depression

by Paul Keedwell and Philip Barker

"What I am offering is a critical overview of ideas about depression, some new, some old, which fall under the discipline of 'evolutionary psychology'(EP). Do most types of depression represent an adaptation - an evolved mechanism which has improved our survival and reproductive value in our ancestral environment? Has depression been selected? Could it still be useful to us today? This book makes a contribution to the field while communicating the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846190134
• ISBN13: 9781846190131
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.