Addiction poses significant social, health, and criminal issues. Its moderate heritability and
early-life impact, affecting reproductive success, poses an evolutionary paradox: why are …

While critical sociologists and anthropologists of health have questioned Global Mental
Health policies as postcolonial, developmental agendas, little is known on how this critique …

Perspectives on autism and psychiatric conditions are affected by a mix of scientific and
social influences. Evolutionary psychiatry (EP) and the neurodiversity movement are …

Introduction In this study we explore how the diagnostic category of mood disorders is
constructed in two handbooks of Psychopathology as an example of the mainstream …

Objectives Understanding the factors that contribute to treatment-seeking attitudes among
older adults—a growing population with frequent mental health concerns—is vital. Although …

ABSTRACT I argue that despite the merits of Jefferson's account of a brain disorder, which
are many, the notion of function she deploys is unsuitable to the overall goals of that …

Introduction: Psychiatric diagnoses are descriptive in nature, but the lay public commonly
misconceives them as causal explanations. It is not known whether this logical error, a form …

Patients in psychotherapy occasionally invoke biogenetic explanations for their mental
health problems. For example, they may propose that they are feeling depressed because of …

There are three main accounts of the proper function of the low mood system (LMS): the
social risk theory, the disease theory, and the propitiousness theory. Adjudicating between …

Using narrative inquiry, this study investigated the lived experience of embodied cognition—
the integrated emotional and intellectual functions of cognition—in transformative learning in …