Overview

The Textbook of Evolutionary Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine updates and expands on the original Textbook of Evolutionary Psychiatry (OUP, 2008) to provide answers to these questions by emphasising an evolutionary perspective on psychiatric and psychosomatic conditions. It explains how the human brain/mind has been shaped by natural and sexual selection; why adaptations to environmental conditions in our evolutionary past may nowadays work in suboptimal ways; and how human cognition, emotions, and behaviour can be scientifically framed to improve our understanding of how people try to attain important biosocial goals pertaining to one's status in society, mating, eliciting and providing care, and maintaining rewarding relationships.

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Author:   Martin Brune
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.90cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 24.70cm
Weight:   0.834kg
ISBN:  

9780198717942

ISBN 10:   0198717946
Pages:   486
Publication Date:   29 October 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Part I: Theoretical background 1: Principles of evolutionary theory, evolutionary psychology and genetics 2: The human brain: Anatomy, evolution and function 3: Human life history 4: Causes of psychopathology 5: Psychiatric assessment Part II: Psychiatric disorders 6: Autism 7: Attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder 8: Schizophrenia spectrum disorders 9: Bipolar disorder 10: Depressive disorder 11: Anxiety disorders 12: Obsessive compulsive disorder 13: Trauma- and stressor-related disorders 14: Somatic symptom and related disorders 15: Feeding and eating disorders 16: Sexual dysfunctions 17: Substance related and addictive disorders 18: Neurocognitive disorders 19: Personality disorders Part III: Special topics 20: Suicide and self-injurious behaviour 21: Forensic aspects of psychiatric disorders 22: Psychotherapy 23: Psychotropic medication 24: Epilogue References

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`This superb book covers the evolutionary underpinnings and basis of psychotherapy...a significant contribution to psychiatry and should be essential reading for any psychiatrist in training...outstanding.' Michael J Schrift, DO, MA, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago

This superb book covers the evolutionary underpinnings and basis of psychotherapy...a significant contribution to psychiatry and should be essential reading for any psychiatrist in training...outstanding. Michael J Schrift, DO, MA, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago

Author Information

Martin Brune was born in Dortmund, Germany, in 1962. He graduated in medicine at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Munster in 1988. He completed his neurology training in 1993, and his psychiatry training in 1995. His subsequent training included a Visiting Research Scientist fellowship at the Centre for the Mind, a joint venture of the Australian National University and University of Sydney. He is currently Professor of Psychiatry and Head of the Division of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry and Psychiatric Preventive Medicine at the LWL University-Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.

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