دانلود کتاب روانپزشکی تکاملی – دیدگاه های کنونی در مورد تکامل و سلامت روان

As was common in the medical milieu of their times, both Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926) (Kraepelin, 1987) and Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) (Sulloway, 1980) had a strong interest in human evolution, the first pioneering the pursuit of psychiatric genetics in his university department and the second explicitly advocating the teaching of evolution in psychoanalytic training towards the end of his life. Unfortunately, the cruelties of eugenics and the malice of social Darwinism led to hideous practices, including the castration (Porter, 1999) and killing (Friedlander, 1995) of tens of thousands of disabled citizens with severe neuropsychiatric impairments. Regardless, the continuing confirmation of familial factors in the epidemiology of psychiatric syndromes and the scientific revolution in the understanding of DNA helped maintain active interest in psychiatric genetics. Probably and perhaps understandably, the hideous legacy and legitimate fear of ‘just-so stories’ (see Chapter 6) together with exciting advances in genetic techniques served to narrow the focus on genes and marginalise a broader evolutionary perspective in our speciality. This wide-ranging volume, which is guided by the needs of clinical practice, will serve to redress the balance. Crucially, all of the chapters are clearly written and pitched at a level that should engage psychiatric trainees (and interested others) and thus help future colleagues develop a deeper understanding of the diverse and multiply determined phenomena that we meet in the clinic or other settings.