Part I Evolutionary Psychology: An Introduction 1. Historical Background 2. Human Nature: Its Evolution and Development 3. Principles of Psychopathology 4. Attachment, Rank and Psychiatry Part II 5. Affective Disorders 6. Personality Disorders 7. Obsessional Disorders 8. Anxiety and Phobic Disorders 9. Eating Disorders Part III 10. The Borderline State 11. Borderline Personality Disorders Part IV 12. Spacing and Personality Disorders 13. Schizophrenia Part V Reproductive Disorders 14. Reproductive Success and Failure 15. Homosexuality 16. Sadomasochism 17. Paedophilia Part VI Dreams, Treatment, Research and the Future 18. Sleep and Dreams 19. Classification 20. Treatment 21. Research 22. Towards a Science of Humanity
John Price, Anthony Stevens
`Anthony Stevens and John Price have got together in Evolutionary
Psychiatry to propose a "revolutionary" new way of understanding
mental illness by means of Darwinian theory. They argue
persuasively that conditions like depression, anxiety, personality
disorders, and schizophrenia are the result of environmental
maladaptation of strategies embedded in the phylogenetic makeup of
the human species.' - British Medical Journal
'The authors modestly claim that their book is no more than a first
effort to define the basic components of human behaviour and its
disorders in terms of evolutionary biology ... In my view, this
attempt at a new paradigm is one of the most fruitful developments
in psychiatry in recent years.' - Anthony Storr, the Financial
Times
'Warmly recommended.' - Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian
'The book serves as a thought-provoking introduction to a young and
rapidly growing area of research. I suspect that the authors' claim
that "psychiatry is entering the most exciting phase in its
history" may prove correct.' - Stuart Blackman, New Scientist
'The book is written with crystal clarity, and the discussion is
detailed, and thoroughly well referenced. This book cannot be the
whole story, but it is an excellent introduction to a most
important perspective on psychiatry and human behaviour.' -
Hollistic Health No 54 Autumn 1997
'This book will be of interest to psychiatrists working in many
areas and should be available in medical libraries' - British
Journal of Psychiatry
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