ABSTRACT

Newly available in paperback, this is the first book to bring together classic and contemporary readings illustrating the new subdiscipline, evolutionary psychopathology. Each chapter demonstrates how evolutionary arguments are being brought to bear on the study of a different psychiatric condition or pathalogical behaviour. The Maladapted Mind is aimed primarily at primarily at advanced students and researchers in the fields of psychiatry, abnormal psychology, biological anthropology, evolutionary biology and cognitive science.

chapter 2|15 pages

Evolutionary biology

A basic science for psychiatry?

chapter 3|17 pages

Evolutionary epidemiology

Darwinian theory in the service of medicine and psychiatry

chapter 4|16 pages

Fear and fitness

An evolutionary analysis of anxiety disorders

chapter 6|29 pages

A cognitive developmental approach to morality

Investigating the psychopath

chapter 8|56 pages

The sociobiology of sociopathy

An integrated evolutionary model

chapter 10|33 pages

How to build a baby that can read minds

Cognitive mechanisms in mindreading