Taylor & Francis Cantor, C: Evolution and Posttraumatic Stress

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, 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 parsimonyThis 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. ...