Book Description 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, овкщн 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 behaviors · A clinical perspective of PTSD · Defense 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, anthropologist.  Очищающий2005 г 216 стр ISBN 1583917713.