Evolutionary psychiatry, known as Darwinian psychiatry, is a theoretical approach to psychiatry that aims to explain psychiatric disorders in evolutionary terms.
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10 Facts About Evolutionary psychiatry
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Rather than providing an alternative account of the cause of mental disorder, evolutionary psychiatry seeks to integrate findings from traditional schools of psychology and psychiatry such as social psychology, behaviourism, biological psychiatry and psychoanalysis into a holistic account related to evolutionary biology.
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Concepts applied by modern evolutionary psychiatry to explain mental disorder are much older than the field, in many cases.
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Evolutionary psychiatry theory is uniquely placed to be able to distinguish biological function from dysfunction by evolutionary processes.
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Research questions and concerns of evolutionary medicine and psychiatry can be distinguished from normal biomedicine and biological-psychiatry research as asking ultimate instead of proximate questions.
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Evolutionary psychiatry mismatch occurs when evolved traits become maladaptive due to changes in the environment.
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Evolutionary psychiatry recognised the exceptional talent of many autistic people in some area of non-human knowledge or skill.
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Evolutionary psychiatry perspectives exist on Anorexia nervosa and Bulimia nervosa.
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Evolutionary psychiatry does acknowledge that intra-sexual competition is a driving force of anorexia and bulimia in undergraduate women.
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Evolutionary psychiatry has so far primarily concentrated on scientific explanations for mental disorders rather than developing novel treatment approaches.
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