Robert G. Goldstein

Challenging the Therapeutic Narrative (eBook, PDF)

Historical and Clinical Perspectives on the Genetics of Behavior

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores and challenges the assumption that behavioral proclivities and pathologies are directly traceable to experience, exploring historical and cultural perspectives on behavioral genetics and evolutionary biology, and challenging the clinical utility of the therapeutic narrative.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000861754
• Artikelnr.: 67249207

Autorenporträt

Robert G. Goldstein is Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry and Assistant Attending Psychiatrist at Weill Cornell Medical College and New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. He is also a member of the Research Faculty at the DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry, an interdisciplinary research division at Weill Cornell, USA. He is a graduate of Brown University and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: The Confabulating Species 1. The Problem with
Storytelling 2. The Rise and Slow Decline of the Therapeutic Narrative
Part II: Apostles of Modern Nativism 3. Francis Galton and the Birth of
Behavioral Genetics 4. The Novelist as Accidental Nativist: The Addict as
Natural Kind 5. Seymour Kety and American Lysenkoism Part III:
Reconnoitering Innateness 6. Innateness Wars: A Darwinian Aside 7. The
Missing 50%: Non-Heritable Sources of Variance 8. The Dimensional Approach