Evolution and Psychiatry: Clinical Cases
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Since the publication of Charles Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’ over a century and a half ago, evolutionary theory has become established as a bedrock of the biological sciences. Despite this, evolution is largely ignored in clinical medicine and psychiatry, at the levels of medical education, research and everyday clinical applications.
In ‘Evolution and Psychiatry: Clinical Cases’, I begin by outlining key evolutionary principles and describing how they relate to illness generally and, specifically, to mental illness. I then go on to describe in detail a series of ten hypothetical clinical cases covering the major psychiatric disorders and incorporating in each chapter how evolutionary principles can be utilized in everyday clinical settings to help sufferers and to inform useful research questions.
This book should be of interest to both healthcare professionals and a general readership. For each of the chapters relating to psychiatric disorders, readers are taken on clinical journeys with hypothetical patients. Clinical encounters for these hypothetical patients are used to generate key learning objectives. The learning objectives cover a wide range of clinical and basic sciences, with an emphasis of course on evolutionary science.
Modern principles of medical education are employed throughout the book, with a case based approach to each major disorder that is accessible and appealing to readers and that aids deep learning and subsequent practical application.
Clinical and basic science principles are vertically integrated within each case and universal learning objectives are horizontally integrated between cases and cross referenced.
This book provides a novel framework within which to view mental health and illness in the context of our evolutionary origins and a wider social and environmental context. Such a framework is also likely to be helpful in planning new strategies for promoting wellness and delivering healthcare.
In ‘Evolution and Psychiatry: Clinical Cases’, I begin by outlining key evolutionary principles and describing how they relate to illness generally and, specifically, to mental illness. I then go on to describe in detail a series of ten hypothetical clinical cases covering the major psychiatric disorders and incorporating in each chapter how evolutionary principles can be utilized in everyday clinical settings to help sufferers and to inform useful research questions.
This book should be of interest to both healthcare professionals and a general readership. For each of the chapters relating to psychiatric disorders, readers are taken on clinical journeys with hypothetical patients. Clinical encounters for these hypothetical patients are used to generate key learning objectives. The learning objectives cover a wide range of clinical and basic sciences, with an emphasis of course on evolutionary science.
Modern principles of medical education are employed throughout the book, with a case based approach to each major disorder that is accessible and appealing to readers and that aids deep learning and subsequent practical application.
Clinical and basic science principles are vertically integrated within each case and universal learning objectives are horizontally integrated between cases and cross referenced.
This book provides a novel framework within which to view mental health and illness in the context of our evolutionary origins and a wider social and environmental context. Such a framework is also likely to be helpful in planning new strategies for promoting wellness and delivering healthcare.
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