Paul Keedwell, Philip Barker

How Sadness Survived (eBook, PDF)

The Evolutionary Basis of Depression

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

"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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781138032781
• Artikelnr.: 57257754

Autorenporträt

Paul Keedwell, Philip Barker

Inhaltsangabe

Genes, disease and depression: busting myths. Some important assumptions
about depression. The war of depression: an ancient human condition or a
modern malaise? Living on a boat. Why weepest thou? Is depression
universal? Depression's place in the animal kingdom. Adaptation or fluff?
What has depression ever done for us? Putting on the brakes. Taking stock
(the vision quest). Beneficial by-products. Treating depression: new
perspectives. The loss of depression's adaptive power? Should we treat
depression?