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Human Nature and Suffering

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Human Nature and Suffering book

Human Nature and Suffering

DOI link for Human Nature and Suffering

Human Nature and Suffering book

ByPaul Gilbert
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
eBook Published 5 August 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315564258
Pages 436 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315564258
SubjectsBehavioral Sciences
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Gilbert, P. (2017). Human Nature and Suffering. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315564258

Human Nature and Suffering is a profound comment on the human condition, from the perspective of evolutionary psychology. Paul Gilbert explores the implications of humans as evolved social animals, suggesting that evolution has given rise to a varied set of social competencies, which form the basis of our personal knowledge and understanding.

Gilbert shows how our primitive competencies become modified by experience - both satisfactorily and unsatisfactorily. He highlights how cultural factors may modify and activate many of these primitive competencies, leading to pathology proneness and behaviours that are collectively survival threatening. These varied themes are brought together to indicate how the social construction of self arises from the organization of knowledge encoded within the competencies.

This Classic Edition features a new introduction from the author, bringing Gilbert's early work to a new audience. The book will be of interest to clinicians, researchers and historians in the field of psychology.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|5 pages

Introduction and overview

chapter 2|30 pages

A legacy from the past

The role of human nature

chapter 3|41 pages

The mapping of human nature

chapter 4|22 pages

The psychobiology of some basic mechanisms

chapter 5|18 pages

The psychobiology of peripheral systems

chapter 6|21 pages

Care eliciting and attachment strategies

chapter 7|24 pages

Care eliciting and theories of psychopathology

chapter 8|21 pages

Care giving and nurturance

chapter 9|15 pages

Disorders of care giving

chapter 10|27 pages

Co-operation

chapter 11|31 pages

Co-operation

Some blocks and pathologies

chapter 12|33 pages

Competition

Status, power and dominance

chapter 13|23 pages

Some psychopathologies of status, power and dominance

chapter 14|29 pages

Beyond the power of reason

chapter 15|11 pages

Conclusions and reflections

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