This is the first book to bring together classic and contemporary readings illustrating the new subdiscipline of evolutionary psychopathology. How evolutionary arguments bear on the study of different psychiatric conditions are demonstrated.
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.
