ABSTRACT
This chapter examines a selection of biological and allied psychological justifications for an approach to comprehending and correcting madness which attends to faults in the individual. In the main, the clinical disciplines of psychiatry, psychology, and psychotherapy are searching for and subsequently attempting to resolve faults in the individual’s genes, brain, biochemistry, and performance (that is her/his thinking, feelings, and behaviours). The clinicians are utilising the empirical and technical endeavours of neuroscience, genetics, endocrinology, immunology, cognitive science, as well as conjecturing of evolutionary psychologists. In conjunction with the scientific inspection of brains, neurons, neurochemicals, and evolutionary assertions about modern-day human performance, a plethora of pharmaceuticals and psychotherapies, and expanding catalogue of neuro-genetic manipulations, are intended to abate, correct, or prevent faults in the individual. Her/his close social groupings are given an occasion glance in clinical practice, and the scientific and clinical and literature make mention of ‘society’ but only intermittently and is generally devoid of epistemological or practical commitment.
