Evolutionary Concepts of Mental Disorders—A Unifying Framework?
Evolutionary Concepts of Mental Disorders—A Unifying Framework?
Dysfunction of basic learning mechanisms my best be understood within an evolutionary framework of human behavior. In this chapter, traditional evolutionary accounts of mental disorders are described and criticized, because they often have been based on a rather prejudiced view of non-European cultures and their supposed “primitiveness”. Such existing evolutionary theories and their pitfalls have to be kept in mind when developing a new understanding of mental disorder.
Keywords: Basic learning mechanism, Dysfunction, Evolution, Human behaviour, primitiveness
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