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Evolutionary psychiatry; a new beginning

By: Material type: TextTextNew York Routledge 1996Description: xi, 267p.; bibliog. refs; bibliog.; glossary; indexContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0-415-13840-X (pbk)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RC454.4 .S73 1996
Contents:
Part one. Evolutionary psychiatry: an introduction. 1. Historical background -- 2. Human nature: its evolution and development -- 3. Principles of psychopathology -- 4. Attachment, rank and psychiatry. -- Part two: Disorders of attachment and rank. 5. Affective disorders -- 6. Personality disorders -- 7. Obsessional disorders -- 8. Anxiety and phobic disorders -- 9. Eating disorders -- Part three: Borderline disorders: 10. The borderline state -- 11. Borderline personality disorders -- Part four: Spacing disorders. 12. Spacing personality disorders -- 13. Schizophrenia -- Part five: reproductive disorders. 14. Reproductive success and failure -- 15. Homosexuality -- 16. Sadomasochism -- Part six: Dreams, treatment and the future. 17. Sleep and dreams -- 18. Classification -- 19. Treatment -- 20. Towards a science of humanity
Abstract: A Jungian view of the newly expanding field of genetic psychology, in which it is possible to extend archetypal theory to psychiatric aetiology, to make a systematic attempt to acknowledge the phylogenetic dimension in psychiatry, and to put psychopathology on a sound evolutionary basis.
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Part one. Evolutionary psychiatry: an introduction. 1. Historical background -- 2. Human nature: its evolution and development -- 3. Principles of psychopathology -- 4. Attachment, rank and psychiatry. -- Part two: Disorders of attachment and rank. 5. Affective disorders -- 6. Personality disorders -- 7. Obsessional disorders -- 8. Anxiety and phobic disorders -- 9. Eating disorders -- Part three: Borderline disorders: 10. The borderline state -- 11. Borderline personality disorders -- Part four: Spacing disorders. 12. Spacing personality disorders -- 13. Schizophrenia -- Part five: reproductive disorders. 14. Reproductive success and failure -- 15. Homosexuality -- 16. Sadomasochism -- Part six: Dreams, treatment and the future. 17. Sleep and dreams -- 18. Classification -- 19. Treatment -- 20. Towards a science of humanity

A Jungian view of the newly expanding field of genetic psychology, in which it is possible to extend archetypal theory to psychiatric aetiology, to make a systematic attempt to acknowledge the phylogenetic dimension in psychiatry, and to put psychopathology on a sound evolutionary basis.

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