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Evolutionary Foundations of Psychiatric Compared to Nonpsychiatric Disorders

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The Evolution of Psychopathology

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With the recent publication of a new edition of a prominent classification system of psychiatric disorders (i.e., DSM-5), and the prospect that the next version will retain the conventional zeitgeist of psychiatry, this chapter discusses why such disorders, when examined from an evolutionary standpoint (e.g., as per cause, manifestation, and impact), are different from disorders germane to the rest of medicine. Specifically, we draw on ideas and insights of evolutionary social and life sciences, including population genetics, gene-culture coevolution, evolutionary psychology and anthropology, evolutionary medicine, behavioral ecology, and human evolutionary developmental biology. We discuss how and why these and related sciences provide an appropriate framework for understanding distinctive features of psychiatric disorders and its practical exigencies (see Fabrega, 1997, 2006a, 2009, 2013 for general background).

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Fabrega, H., Brüne, M. (2017). Evolutionary Foundations of Psychiatric Compared to Nonpsychiatric Disorders. In: Shackelford, T., Zeigler-Hill, V. (eds) The Evolution of Psychopathology. Evolutionary Psychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60576-0_1

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