Evolution and Posttraumatic Stress: Disorders of Vigilance and Defence
By Chris Cantor
- List Price: $90.00
- Web Price: $81.00 (You save $9.00)
- ISBN: 978-1-58391-770-1
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 06/09/2005
- Pages: 240
- Binding(s): Hardback | Paperback
About the Book
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 behaviours
A clinical perspective of PTSD
Defence 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, and anthropologists.
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