Evolution and Posttraumatic Stress: Disorders of Vigilance and Defence - Hardcover

Cantor, Chris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1583917705 ISBN 13: 9781583917701

Verlag: Routledge, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder remains one of the most contentious and poorly understood psychiatric disorders. Evolution and Posttraumatic Stress provides a valuable new perspective on its nature and causes.

This book is the first to examine PTSD from an evolutionary perspective. Beginning with a review of conventional theories, Chris Cantor provides a clear and succinct overview of the history, clinical features and epidemiology of PTSD before going on to introduce and integrate evolutionary theory. Subjects discussed include:

The evolution of human defensive behaviours

A clinical perspective of PTSD

Defence in overdrive: evolution, PTSD and parsimony

This original presentation of PTSD as a defensive strategy describes how the use of evolutionary theory provides a more coherent and successful model for diagnosis, greatly improving understanding of usually mystifying symptoms. It will be of great interest to psychiatrists, psychotherapists, psychologists, and anthropologists.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Chris Cantor is Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1583917705
• ISBN 13: 9781583917701
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 238
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