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Genes on the Couch : Explorations in Evolutionary Psychotherapy by Paul Gilbert and Kent G. Bailey is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Genes on the Couch : Explorations in Evolutionary Psychotherapy about?
Philosophers and therapists have long theorised about how psychological mechanisms for love, jealousy, anxiety, depression and many other human characteristics may have evolved over millions of years. In the dawn of the new insights on evolution, provided by Darwin's theories of natural selection, Freud, Jung and Klein sought to identify and understand human motives, emotions and information processing as functions deeply-rooted in our evolved history. Despite this promising start and major developments in modern evolutionary psychology, anthropology and sociobiology, the last fifty years has seen little in the way of therapies derived from an evolutionary understanding of human psychology. The contributors to this timely book illuminate how an evolution focused approach to psychopathology can offer new insights for different schools of therapy and provide a rationale for therapeutic integration. Genes on the Couch brings together respected clinicians who have integrated evolutionary insights into their case conceptualisations and therapeutic interventions. Various psychotherapy schools are represented, and each author provides illustrative examples of the interventions used. Sp
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Paul Gilbert and Kent G. Bailey
- Publisher
- Brunner-Routledge ; Taylor & Francis
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781317711131
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Psychology, Medical, Science