Title: EVOLUTION AND POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS: DISORDERS OF VIGILANCE AND DEFENCE
Description: 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 PTSDDefence 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.
Subjects: Medical, Nonfiction, Psychology, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Evolutionary psychology, Evolution, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic, Animal Behavior, Behavioral Genetics, Comparative Psychology, État de stress post-traumatique, Psychologie évolutionniste, PSYCHOLOGY, Psychopathology, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Posttraumatische stressstoornis