Genes on the Couch: Explorations in Evolutionary Psychotherapy

by Gilbert,Paul; Gilbert,Paul

• ISBN13: 9781583911037
• ISBN10: 1583911030
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-05-03
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

Philosophers and therapists have long theorised about how psychological mechanisms for love, jealousy, anxiety, depression and many other human characteristics may have evolved over millions of years. The contributors to this timely book illuminate how an evolution focused approach to psychopathology can offer new insights for different schools of therapy and provide a rationale for therapeutic integration.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
SECTION I Theory and principles	1	(68)
Evolutionary psychotherapy: Principles and outline	3	(25)
Paul Gilbert
Kent G. Bailey
Michael T. Mcguire
Psychotherapy in the context of Darwinian psychiatry	28	(14)
Alfonso Troisi
Michael T. McGuire
Evolution, kinship, and psychotherapy: Promoting psychological health through human relationships	42	(27)
Kent G. Bailey
SECTION II Evolutionary psychotherapies	69	(140)
Evolutionary psychoanalysis: Toward an adaptive, biological perspective on the clinical process in psychoanalytic psychotherapy	71	(22)
Daniel Kriegman
Jungian analysis and evolutionary psychotherapy: An integrative approach	93	(25)
Anthony Stevens
Social mentalities: Internal `social' conflict and the role of inner warmth and compassion in cognitive therapy	118	(33)
Paul Gilbert
Social intelligence, deception, and psychopathology: A challenge for cognitive therapy?	151	(25)
Nicholas B. Allen
Paul Gilbert
Reluctant males: Evolutionary perspectives on male psychology in couples therapy	176	(20)
Kalman Glantz
Mary-Beth Moehl
Gender and psychotherapy: An evolutionary perspective	196	(13)
Natalie Rasgon
Michael T. Mcguire
Alfonso Troisi
SECTION III Special issues	209	(122)
The evolution of incest avoidance: Oedipus and the psychopathologies of kinship	211	(21)
Mark T. Erickson
Disorganized attachment, models of borderline states and evolutionary. psychotherapy	232	(25)
Giovanni Liotti
The syndrome of rejection sensitivity: An evolutionary perspective	257	(19)
Leon Sloman
Pathogenic beliefs and guilt in human evolution: Implications for psychotherapy	276	(28)
Lynn E. O'connor
The psychotherapy of shame-related pathology from an evolutionary perspective	304	(27)
David W. Harder
Deborah F. Greenwald
SECTION IV Overview and concluding comments	331	(18)
Evolutionary psychotherapy: Where to from here?	333	(16)
Kent G. Bailey
Paul Gilbert
Author index	349	(14)
Subject index	363