Pieter Adriaens

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Produktbeschreibung

Written by leading authors in philosophy, psychiatry, biology and psychology, this volume illustrates that many debates in contemporary philosophy of psychiatry are profoundly influenced by evolutionary approaches to mental disorders. Conversely, it also reveals how philosophers can help contribute to the burgeoning field of evolutionary psychiatry. It is important reading for a wide range of readers interested in mental health care and philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9780199558667
• ISBN-10: 0199558663
• Artikelnr.: 33252544

Autorenporträt

Pieter R. Adriaens is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Leuven's Institute of Philosophy. He was a visiting scholar at the universities of Montpellier and Cambridge (UK), and a participant observer in various mental hospitals in Belgium. Most of his work is about the history and philosophy of evolutionary psychiatry, but he has also published on evolutionary accounts of homosexuality and homophobia. He plays Fender Rhodes in a post-rock trio called Grim, and is an avid collector of mid-century modern design and decorative arts. Andreas De Block is assistant professor at the University of Leuven's Institute of Philosophy. He studied philosophy, psychology and sexology at the universities of Gent and Leuven, and was a VENI-fellow of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). He is the author and editor of numerous books about philosophy, psychiatry and psychoanalysis, and has a keen interest in cultural evolution, as well as the integration of evolutionary theory and the social sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword
* Introduction - Why philosophers of psychiatry should care about
evolutionary theory
* Part 1: Evolutionary psychiatry and its critics
* 1: Luc Faucher and Isabelle Blanchette: Fearing new dangers: phobias
and the cognitive complexity of human emotions
* 2: Hanna Aronsson: Sexual imprinting and fetishism: an evolutionary
hypothesis
* 3: Edouard Machery: Developmental disorders and cognitive
architecture
* 4: Erwin Geerts and Martin Brÿne: On the role of ethology in
clinical psychiatry: what do ontogenetic and causal factors tell us
about ultimate explanations of depression?
* Part 2: Evolutionary theory and the concept of mental disorder
* 5: Jerome C. Wakefield: Darwin, functional explanation, and the
philosophy of psychiatry
* 6: Randolph M. Nesse and Eric D. Jackson: Evolutionary foundations
for psychiatric diagnosis: making DSM-V Valid
* 7: Daniel Nettle: Normality, disorder and evolved function: the case
of depression
* 8: Kelly Roe and Dominic Murphy: Function, dysfunction, and
adaptation?
* Part 3: Psychopathology, evolution, and human nature
* 9: Farah Focquaert and Johan Braeckman: Mirroring the mind: on
empathy and autism
* 10: John Price: The role of mood change in defining relationships: a
tribute to Gregory Bateson (1904-1980)
* 11: Jonathan Burns: From 'evolved interpersonal relatedness' to
'costly social alienation': an evolutionary neurophilosophy of
schizophrenia