The Evolution of Psychopathology

Book Overview

This review of recent evolutionary theories on psychopathology takes on controversies and contradictions both with established psychological thought and within the evolutionary field itself. Opening with the ancestral origins of the familiar biopsychosocial model of psychological conditions, the book traces distinctive biological and cultural pathways shaping human development and their critical impact on psychiatric and medical disorders. Analyses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319605755
• ISBN13: 9783319605753
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"