Chris Cantor

Evolution and Posttraumatic Stress (eBook, PDF)

Disorders of Vigilance and Defence

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 behaviors
- A clinical perspective of PTSD
- Defense 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, anthropologist.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135448516
• Artikelnr.: 38242944

Autorenporträt

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