Maladapting Minds Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Evolutionary Theory

by Adriaens, Pieter R.; De Block, Andreas

• ISBN13: 9780191754647
• ISBN10: 0191754641
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2013-02-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Pieter R. Adriaens, Department of Philosophy, University of Leuven, Belgium,Andreas De Block, Institute of Philosophy, University of Leuven, Belgium

Pieter R. Adriaens is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Leuven's Institute of Philosophy. He was a visiting scholar at the universities of Montpellier and Cambridge (UK), and a participant observer in various mental hospitals in Belgium. Most of his work is about the history and philosophy of evolutionary psychiatry, but he has also published on evolutionary accounts of homosexuality and homophobia. He plays Fender Rhodes in a post-rock trio called Grim, and is an avid collector of mid-century modern design and decorative arts.

Andreas De Block is assistant professor at the University of Leuven's Institute of Philosophy. He studied philosophy, psychology and sexology at the universities of Gent and Leuven, and was a VENI-fellow of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). He is the author and editor of numerous books about philosophy, psychiatry and psychoanalysis, and has a keen interest in cultural evolution, as well as the integration of evolutionary theory and the social sciences.

Table of Contents

Foreword, Geoffrey Miller
Introduction - Why philosophers of psychiatry should care about evolutionary theory, Andreas De Block and Pieter R. Adriaens
Part 1: Evolutionary psychiatry and its critics
1. Fearing new dangers: phobias and the cognitive complexity of human emotions, Luc Faucher and Isabelle Blanchette
2. Sexual imprinting and fetishism: an evolutionary hypothesis, Hanna Aronsson
3. Developmental disorders and cognitive architecture, Edouard Machery
4. On the role of ethology in clinical psychiatry: what do ontogenetic and causal factors tell us about ultimate explanations of depression?, Erwin Geerts and Martin Brune
Part 2: Evolutionary theory and the concept of mental disorder
5. Darwin, functional explanation, and the philosophy of psychiatry, Jerome C. Wakefield
6. Evolutionary foundations for psychiatric diagnosis: making DSM-V Valid, Randolph M. Nesse and Eric D. Jackson
7. Normality, disorder and evolved function: the case of depression, Daniel Nettle
8. Function, dysfunction, and adaptation?, Kelly Roe and Dominic Murphy
Part 3: Psychopathology, evolution, and human nature
9. Mirroring the mind: on empathy and autism, Farah Focquaert and Johan Braeckman
10. The role of mood change in defining relationships: a tribute to Gregory Bateson (1904-1980), John Price
11. From 'evolved interpersonal relatedness' to 'costly social alienation': an evolutionary neurophilosophy of schizophrenia, Jonathan Burns