Religious Beliefs, Evolutionary Psychiatry, and Mental Health in America: Evolutionary Threat Assessment Systems Theory
暫譯: 美國的宗教信仰、進化精神醫學與心理健康：進化威脅評估系統理論
Flannelly, Kevin J.
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2018-07-21
- 售價: $4,990
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $4,741
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 341
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 331984914X
- ISBN-13: 9783319849140
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商品描述
This book provides a new perspective on the association between religious beliefs and mental health. The book is divided into five parts, the first of which traces the development of theories of organic evolution in the cultural and religious context before Charles Darwin. Part II describes the major evolutionary theories that Darwin proposed in his three books on evolution, and the religious, sociological, and scientific reactions to his theories. Part III introduces the reader to the concept of evolutionary psychiatry. It discusses how different regions of the brain evolved over time, and explains that certain brain regions evolved to protect us from danger by assessing threats of harm in the environment, including other humans. Specifically, this part describes: how psychiatric symptoms that are commonly experienced by normal individuals during their everyday lives are the product of brain mechanisms that evolved to protect us from harm; the prevalence rate of psychiatric symptoms in the U.S. general population; how religious and other beliefs influence the brain mechanisms that underlie psychiatric symptoms; and the brain regions that are involved in different psychiatric disorders. Part IV presents the findings of U.S. studies demonstrating that positive beliefs about God and life-after-death, and belief in meaning-in-life and divine forgiveness have salutary associations with mental health, whereas negative beliefs about God and life-after-death, belief in the Devil and human evil, and doubts about one's religious beliefs have pernicious associations with mental health. The last part of the book summarizes each section and recommends research on the brain mechanism underlying psychiatric symptoms, and the relationships among these brain mechanisms, religious beliefs, and mental health in the context of ETAS Theory.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本書提供了一個關於宗教信仰與心理健康之間關聯的新視角。全書分為五個部分，第一部分追溯了查爾斯·達爾文之前有機進化理論在文化和宗教背景下的發展。第二部分描述了達爾文在其三本有關進化的書中提出的主要進化理論，以及對其理論的宗教、社會學和科學反應。第三部分向讀者介紹進化精神病學的概念。它討論了大腦不同區域隨著時間的演變，並解釋某些大腦區域是如何進化以保護我們免受危險，通過評估環境中的傷害威脅，包括其他人類。具體而言，這部分描述了：正常個體在日常生活中常見的精神病症狀是如何成為進化出來以保護我們免受傷害的大腦機制的產物；美國一般人口中精神病症狀的流行率；宗教及其他信仰如何影響基礎於精神病症狀的大腦機制；以及涉及不同精神疾病的大腦區域。第四部分呈現了美國研究的發現，顯示對上帝和來世的正面信仰，以及對生命意義和神聖寬恕的信仰與心理健康之間有良好的關聯，而對上帝和來世的負面信仰、對魔鬼和人類邪惡的信仰，以及對自身宗教信仰的懷疑則與心理健康之間有有害的關聯。書的最後一部分總結了每個部分，並建議對精神病症狀背後的大腦機制進行研究，以及這些大腦機制、宗教信仰和心理健康之間的關係，並在ETAS理論的背景下進行探討。
作者簡介
Dr. Kevin J. Flannelly received his Ph.D. in physiological and comparative psychology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and his M.S. in psychobiology from Rutgers University. He has conducted research on a wide range of topics in sociology, psychiatry, and psychopharmacology, and clinical, cognitive, comparative, developmental, and physiological psychology, as well as various areas of healthcare. Over the past 40 years, he has published more than 160 peer-reviewed articles and numerous other articles and book chapters. He became interested in the relationship between religion and physical and mental health in 1995, and he has published almost 90 peer-reviewed articles in the field of religion and health. Dr. Flannelly published his first study exploring the connection between religious beliefs and mental health in 2004 and he published his first theoretical model about the mechanisms by which beliefs affect mental health in a 2006 article in The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, titled "Beliefs, Mental Health, and Evolutionary Threat Assessment Systems in the Brain." In all, he has published a score of empirical and theoretical articles on the relationship between religious beliefs and mental health.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
凱文·J·弗蘭利博士（Dr. Kevin J. Flannelly）於夏威夷大學馬諾亞分校獲得生理與比較心理學的博士學位，並在羅格斯大學獲得心理生物學的碩士學位。他在社會學、精神醫學、心理藥理學，以及臨床、認知、比較、發展和生理心理學等廣泛主題上進行了研究，並涉及各種醫療保健領域。在過去的40年中，他發表了超過160篇經過同行評審的文章，以及許多其他文章和書籍章節。他於1995年開始對宗教與身心健康之間的關係產生興趣，並在宗教與健康領域發表了近90篇經過同行評審的文章。弗蘭利博士於2004年發表了第一項探討宗教信仰與心理健康之間聯繫的研究，並在2006年於《神經與精神疾病雜誌》（The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease）發表了他的第一個理論模型，該文章標題為「信仰、心理健康與大腦中的進化威脅評估系統」（'Beliefs, Mental Health, and Evolutionary Threat Assessment Systems in the Brain'）。總的來說，他發表了多篇實證和理論文章，探討宗教信仰與心理健康之間的關係。
