Description: Decent of Madness : Evolutionary Origins of Psychosis And the Social Brain, Hardcover by Burns, Jonathan, ISBN 158391742X, ISBN-13 9781583917428, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Drawing on evidence from across the behavioural and natural sciences, this book advances a radical new hypothesis: that madness exists as a costly consequence of the evolution of a sophisticated social brain in Homo sapiens. Having explained the rationale for an evolutionary approach to psychosis, the author makes a case for psychotic illness in our living ape relatives, as well as in human ancestors. He then reviews existing evolutionary theories of psychosis, before introducing his own thesis: that the same genes causing madness are responsible for the evolution of our highly social brain. Jonathan Burns’ novel Darwinian analysis of the importance of psychosis for human survival provides some meaning for this form of suffering. It also spurs us to a renewed commitment to changing our societies in a way that allows the mentally ill the opportunity of living. The Descent of Madness will be of interest to those in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, sociology and anthropology, and is also accessible to the general reader.
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Book Title: Decent of Madness : Evolutionary Origins of Psychosis And the Soc
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Name: Descent of Madness : Evolutionary Origins of Psychosis and the Social Brain
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Psychotherapy / General, Life Sciences / Evolution, Psychopathology / General, Clinical Psychology, Interpersonal Relations
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2007
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 20.8 Oz
Item Length: 9.4 in
Subject Area: Science, Psychology
Author: Jonathan Burns
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
