Evolving Psychiatry
Evolutionary psychiatry offers evolutionary explanations for the range of mental health conditions identified by psychiatry today.
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Why Hadn't I Heard of This? | Adam Hunt | Evolving Psychiatry #62 (opens the original)
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Everyone's heard of evolutionary theory, but very few have heard of it being applied to mental health and disorder. Why? In this episode, Adam covers the scientific and structural reasons for this state of affairs.Adam Hunt, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Evolution, Mental Health and Behaviour lab at the University of Cambridge. He is also Founding Chair of the Foundation for Evolution and Mental Health, an Executive Committee Member of the Evolutionary Psychiatry Special Interest Grou
Skeptic of Psychiatric Diagnoses | Sami Timimi | Evolving Psychiatry #61 (opens the original)
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Are mental disorders such as ADHD 'real'? Should we be using medication? Sami Timimi comes from a 'critical psychiatry' perspective which questions these fundamental assumptions in psychiatry.Dr Sami Timimi is a retired consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and author. A Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, he has been one of the UK’s most prominent voices in critical psychiatry, writing extensively on childhood, psychotherapy, psychiatric diagnosis, medicalisat
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