I distinguish three evolutionary explanations of mental illness: first, breakdowns in evolved computational systems; second, evolved systems performing their evolutionary function in a novel environment; third, evolved personality structures. I concentrate on the second and third explanations, as these are distinctive of an evolutionary psychopathology, with progressively less credulity in the light of the empirical evidence. General morals are drawn for evolutionary psychiatry
Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/138833/4/Nesse Chap on Evolution and ...
Accounts of the evolutionary origins of human psychology can be as intriguing as they are difficult ...
In the interaction between Psychiatry and evolutionary theory the force of the impact has not always...
Discovering why natural selection has left humans vulnerable to mental disorders will make psychiatr...
Recent progress in the evolutionary understanding of behavior may greatly assist psychiatry. Althoug...
AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE revolutionized our understanding of behavior over a generation ago, but ...
this thesis should allow the reader to unpack the whole the concept of various mental disorders in r...
Medicalization of human behavioral diversity is a recurrent theme in the history of psychiatry, and ...
After the Darwinian revolution, biology is not only the study of the operation of structural element...
Ever since Darwin, psychiatrists have been tempted to put evolutionary theory to use in their effort...
Evolutionary psychiatrists invariably consider schizophrenia to be a paradox: how come natural selec...
Objective: The current mainstream approach to psychiatry, characterised as empirical and phenomenolo...
Psychopaths are brutal individuals, having no empathetic concern for others. Initially, the existenc...
In this paper, I explain why evolutionary psychiatry is not where the next revolution in psychiatry ...
Evolutionary theory has been employed to explain psychological and social phenomena for over a hundr...
Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/138833/4/Nesse Chap on Evolution and ...
Accounts of the evolutionary origins of human psychology can be as intriguing as they are difficult ...
In the interaction between Psychiatry and evolutionary theory the force of the impact has not always...
Discovering why natural selection has left humans vulnerable to mental disorders will make psychiatr...
Recent progress in the evolutionary understanding of behavior may greatly assist psychiatry. Althoug...
AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE revolutionized our understanding of behavior over a generation ago, but ...
this thesis should allow the reader to unpack the whole the concept of various mental disorders in r...
Medicalization of human behavioral diversity is a recurrent theme in the history of psychiatry, and ...
After the Darwinian revolution, biology is not only the study of the operation of structural element...
Ever since Darwin, psychiatrists have been tempted to put evolutionary theory to use in their effort...
Evolutionary psychiatrists invariably consider schizophrenia to be a paradox: how come natural selec...
Objective: The current mainstream approach to psychiatry, characterised as empirical and phenomenolo...
Psychopaths are brutal individuals, having no empathetic concern for others. Initially, the existenc...
In this paper, I explain why evolutionary psychiatry is not where the next revolution in psychiatry ...
Evolutionary theory has been employed to explain psychological and social phenomena for over a hundr...
Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/138833/4/Nesse Chap on Evolution and ...
Accounts of the evolutionary origins of human psychology can be as intriguing as they are difficult ...
In the interaction between Psychiatry and evolutionary theory the force of the impact has not always...