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Genes, memes, culture, and mental illness：toward an integrative model

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Leigh Hoyle, 1942-
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Published: Springer,
Publisher Address: New York
Publication Dates: c2010.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Mental illness > Genetic aspects.
Memes.
Memetics.
Mental Disorders > genetics.
Mental Disorders > prevention & control
Culture.
Evolution.
Medicine
MEDICAL > Psychiatry > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Clinical Psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness.
MEDICAL > Mental Health.
Electronic books.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5671-2
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xviii, 291 p.): ill.
ISBN: 9781441956712 (electronic bk.)
1441956719 (electronic bk.)
Index Number: R749
CLC: R749
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Genes and mental illness -- How does stress work? the role of memes in epigenesis -- Culture and mental illness -- Genetic-memetic model of mental illness-migration and natural disasters as illustrations -- What do we inherit from our parents and ancestors? -- Genes -- Evolution -- Learning, imitation, and memes -- Storage and evolution of memes in the brain -- External storage of memes: culture, media, cyberspace -- Culture and the individual -- What is mental health -- What is mental illness? -- Psychiatric diagnosis: toward a memetic-epigenetic multiaxial model -- Memetic diagnosis, memetic assessment and biopsychosocial epigenetic formulation -- Principles of memetic therapy -- Broad-spectrum memetic therapy -- Specific memetic therapies -- Genetic-memetic prevention -- Overview of specific syndromes -- Attention-cognition spectrum syndromes: delirium, dementia, impulse control syndromes, ADHD, antisocial personality, obsessive-compulsive personality traits, obsessive-compulsive syndrome -- Anxiety-mood spectrum syndromes: anxiety, panic, phobias, ASD, PTSD, borderline syndrome, dependent and avoidant personalities, social phobia, bipolarity and mania, depression-neurotic and syndromic, adjustment disorders -- Reality perception spectrum syndromes (imagination, dissociation, conversion, somatoform, misattribution somatization, psychosis) -- Pleasure spectrum syndromes (substance use/abuse, additions to substances and beliefs, fanaticism) -- Primary memetic syndromes: eating disorders, factitious disorders, malingering, meme-directed destructive behaviors -- Challenges for the future.

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