Maladapting Minds

Pieter R. Adriaens is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Leuven's Institute of Philosophy. He was a visiting scholar at the universities of Montpellier and Cambridge (UK), and a participant observer in various mental hospitals in Belgium. Most of his work is about the history and philosophy of evolutionary psychiatry, but he has also published on evolutionary accounts of homosexuality and homophobia. He plays Fender Rhodes in a post-rock trio called Grim, and is an avid collector of mid-century modern design and decorative arts. Andreas De Block is assistant professor at the University of Leuven's Institute of Philosophy. He studied philosophy, psychology and sexology at the universities of Gent and Leuven, and was a VENI-fellow of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). He is the author and editor of numerous books about philosophy, psychiatry and psychoanalysis, and has a keen interest in cultural evolution, as well as the integration of evolutionary theory and the social sciences.

Foreword ; Introduction - Why philosophers of psychiatry should care about evolutionary theory ; Part 1: Evolutionary psychiatry and its critics ; 1. Fearing new dangers: phobias and the cognitive complexity of human emotions ; 2. Sexual imprinting and fetishism: an evolutionary hypothesis ; 3. Developmental disorders and cognitive architecture ; 4. On the role of ethology in clinical psychiatry: what do ontogenetic and causal factors tell us about ultimate explanations of depression? ; Part 2: Evolutionary theory and the concept of mental disorder ; 5. Darwin, functional explanation, and the philosophy of psychiatry ; 6. Evolutionary foundations for psychiatric diagnosis: making DSM-V Valid ; 7. Normality, disorder and evolved function: the case of depression ; 8. Function, dysfunction, and adaptation? ; Part 3: Psychopathology, evolution, and human nature ; 9. Mirroring the mind: on empathy and autism ; 10. The role of mood change in defining relationships: a tribute to Gregory Bateson (1904-1980) ; 11. From 'evolved interpersonal relatedness' to 'costly social alienation': an evolutionary neurophilosophy of schizophrenia