ABSTRACT
"What I am offering is a critical overview of ideas about depression, some new, some old, which fall under the discipline of 'evolutionary psychology'(EP). Do most types of depression represent an adaptation - an evolved mechanism which has improved our survival and reproductive value in our ancestral environment? Has depression been selected? Coul
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section 2|57 pages
The war of depression: an ancient human condition or a modern malaise?
part Section 3|63 pages
What has depression ever done for us?
part Section 4|21 pages
Treating depression: new perspectives