... to abuses like eugenics, it has never disappeared. It exists today in the field of evolutionary psychology and its offshoot, Darwinian psychiatry. This fledgling discipline posits the mind as developing during the long period of hunter-gatherer existence, with some emotional states and behaviors now...

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..., Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry posited epilepsy as the root of Paul's visions (Landsborough 1987 ). Meanwhile, in 1991 John Shelby Spong suggested that Paul was gay in his book Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalists ; though the argument generated controversy at the time, Spong insisted that he had derived...

... of healing. Whether this effect reflects the “talk therapy” of traditional psychiatry, or, as Brody has suggested, a powerful placebo, is unclear. NARRATIVES AND CLINICAL RELATIONSHIPS 311 Either way, many benefits have been reported. In the second sense, the prac- tice...

... finds frequently to be naive and self- contradictory, in the emerging field of Darwinian psychiatry. The last essays in this issue relate to the part played by narrative and meta- phor in public health policy, ethics, and education. Whereas metaphors are pri- marily employed for key concepts...

... against the reductiveness of genre fiction is psychoanalysis. Rendell has told one inter- viewer that she often reads "Freud, Jung and Adler," and she ascribes "the con- cern with good and evil in the detective novel" to "the proliferation of the knowledge of psychology and psychiatry."22...