Genes on the Couch: Explorations in Evolutionary Psychotherapy

376 Pages·2000·1.461 MB·English

by  Paul Gilbert, Kent G. Bailey

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GENES ON THE COUCH
Explorations in evolutionary psychotherapy
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GENES ON THE
COUCH
Explorations in evolutionary psychotherapy
Edited by Paul Gilbert and
Kent G. Bailey
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First published 2000
by Brunner-Routledge
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
Published 2014 by Routledge
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©2000 P. Gilbert and K.G. Bailey (eds.)
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CONTENTS
List of contributors vii
Acknowledgements ix
SECTION I
Theory and principles 1
1 Evolutionary psychotherapy: Principles and outline 3
PAUL GILBERT, KENT G. BAILEY AND MICHAEL T. McGUIRE
2 Psychotherapy in the context of Darwinian psychiatry 28
ALFONSO TROISI AND MICHAEL T. McGUIRE
3 Evolution, kinship, and psychotherapy: Promoting psychological
health through human relationships 42
KENT G. BAILEY
SECTION II
Evolutionary psychotherapies 69
4 Evolutionary psychoanalysis: Toward an adaptive, biological
perspective on the clinical process in psychoanalytic
psychotherapy 71
DANIEL KRIEGMAN
5 Jungian analysis and evolutionary psychotherapy: An integrative
approach 93
ANTHONY STEVENS
6 Social mentalities: Internal ‘social’ conflict and the role of inner
warmth and compassion in cognitive therapy 118
PAUL GILBERT
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7 Social intelligence, deception, and psychopathology: A challenge
for cognitive therapy? 151
NICHOLAS B. ALLEN AND PAUL GILBERT
8 Reluctant males: Evolutionary perspectives on male psychology
in couples therapy 176
KALMAN GLANTZ AND MARY-BETH MOEHL
9 Gender and psychotherapy: An evolutionary perspective 196
NATALIE RASGON, MICHAEL T. MCGUIRE AND ALFONSO TROISI
SECTION III
Special issues 209
10 The evolution of incest avoidance: Oedipus and the
psychopathologies of kinship 211
MARK T. ERICKSON
11 Disorganized attachment, models of borderline states and
evolutionary psychotherapy 232
GIOVANNI LIOTTI
12 The syndrome of rejection sensitivity: An evolutionary perspective 257
LEON SLOMAN
13 Pathogenic beliefs and guilt in human evolution: Implications for
psychotherapy 276
LYNN E. O’CONNOR
14 The psychotherapy of shame-related pathology from an
evolutionary perspective 304
DAVID W. HARDER AND DEBORAH F. GREENWALD
SECTION IV
Overview and concluding comments 331
15 Evolutionary psychotherapy: Where to from here? 333
KENT G. BAILEY AND PAUL GILBERT
Author index 349
Subject index 363
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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Nicholas B. Allen, Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Parkville
VIC 3052, Australia
Kent G. Bailey, Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University,
806 West Franklin Street, Richmond, VA 23284–2018, USA
Mark T. Erickson, Alaska Psychiatric Institute, 2900 Providence Drive,
Anchorage, Alaska 99508, USA
Paul Gilbert, Mental Health Research Unit, Kingsway Hospital, Derby DE22 3LZ,
UK
Kalman Glantz, 12 Kinnaird Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Deborah Greenwald, Department of Counseling, Northeastern University, Boston,
MA 02115, USA.
David Harder, Psychology Department, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155,
USA
Daniel Kriegman, 20 Dorcar Road, Newton, MA 02467–3021, USA
Giovanni Liotti, Università Pontificia Salesiana, Roma Scuola di Formazione in
Psicoterapia Cognitiva APC, Roma, Italy
Michael T. McGuire, Neuropsychiatric Institute, 760 Westwood Plaza, School of
Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, California 90024, USA
Mary-Beth Moehl, 11 Hillcroft Park, Medford MA 02155, USA
Lynn E. O’Connor, The Wright Institute, 2728 Durant Avenue, Berkeley CA
94704, USA
Natalie Rasgon, Neuropsychiatric Institute, 760 Westwood Plaza, School of
Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, California 90024, USA
Anthony Stevens, Fardel Manor, Fardel, New Ivy Bridge, Plymouth, PL21 GHT,
UK
Leon Sloman, Department of Psychiatry, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health,
250 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 1R8, Canada
Alfonso Troisi, Department of Psychiatry, Universita Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
When evolution-informed theories began to be applied to psychology and
psychopathology in the 1980s a number of psychotherapists became aware that this
might have implications for psychotherapy. Bowlby’s pioneering work on
attachment theory was one such approach that has had major impact on our
understanding of attachment behaviours and psychopathology. In the mid 1980s
Russell Gardner at the University of Texas (Galveston) started his newsletter
on evolutionary approaches to psychopathology (called ASCP: Across-Species
Comparison in Psychopathology). This newsletter not only helped bring people
together and share ideas in its pages; he also developed opportunities for small
conferences. In 1997 one such was on evolutionary approaches to psychotherapy.
We would like to thank Russell for his foresight and leadership.
Over many years, many have aided our thinking on evolutionary ideas and some
of these people are presented here. Some are not. Special thanks go to John Price
for his pioneering ideas on social rank and depression and to colleagues such as
Helen Wood. We must express our deep gratitude to the many patients with whom
we have shared ideas and who often gently have pointed out our errors. And of
course writing and putting together a volume like this tends to require considerable
time away from families. To them we owe much for their understanding, support
and love. Last but not least, thanks go to Polly Strauss of Psychology Press who was
her usual supportive and encouraging self.
This book represents the beginning of a journey into how the evolved mind
creates happiness and misery and how we might help people who are trapped in
misery. Twenty years from now things might look very different, but if they do we
hope this will be because evolutionary-informed therapy research has identified
and corrected errors and succeeded in shedding more light on this many-millions-
of-years-old mind of ours.
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