The Evolution of Suicide

This thought-provoking volume offers a distinctly human evolutionary analysis of a distinctly human phenomenon: suicide. Its 'pain and brain' model posits animal adaptations as the motivator for suicidal escape, and specific human cognitive adaptations as supplying the means , while also p...

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Hlavní autor: Soper, C A. (Autor)
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Vydání:1st ed. 2018.
Edice:Evolutionary Psychology,
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ISBN:9783319773001
ISSN:2197-9898
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Obsah:
  • Introduction
  • Reviewing the options: Noise, adaptation, by-product
  • Suicide as a by-product of pain and human cognition
  • Shiltons: Lat-line, anti-suicide defenses
  • Common mental disorders (CMDS) as Shiltons
  • Pain-type Krols: Frontline anti-suicide mechanisms
  • Brain-type Krols: Restricting access to suicide idea
  • Summary, conclusion, implications.