Adam talks about the biopsychosocial model of medicine and how evolutionary psychiatry offers to improve upon it. Evolutionary approaches can inform the biological, psychological and social approaches to mental health, and bring together disparate areas of research under an overarching theory.
This episode is based on a chapter titled 'The Biopsychosocial Model Advanced by Evolutionary Theory', authored by Adam Hunt, Paul St-John Smith and Riadh Abed. It is chapter 2 in the book 'Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health", published by Cambridge University Press. The book is available for purchase here via CUP or on Amazon.
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Evolving Psychiatry