Genes, Memes, Culture, and Mental Illness Toward an Integrative Model /

• Main Author: Leigh, Hoyle. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Psychiatry.; Psychology, clinical.; Applied psychology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Clinical Psychology.; Sociology, general.; Cross Cultural Psychology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5671-2

Genes, Memes, Culture, and Mental Illness: Toward an Integrative Model Hoyle Leigh What produces mental illness: genes, environment, both, neither? The question has been asked in various forms, and answers debated, for many centuries. According to a groundbreaking new book, the answer can be found i...

Table of Contents:

• Part I. Genes, Memes, Culture, and the Individual 1. What do we inherit?
• 2. Genes
• 3. Evolution
• 4. Learning and Imitation
• 5. Storage of Learned Information
• 6. Culture as Meme Stores
• 7. Culture and the Individual
• 8. Memes, Endemic, Epidemic, Pandemic
• Part II. Mental Illness
• 9. What Is Mental Illness?
• 10. Genes and Mental Illness
• 11. Memes, Stress, and the Brain
• 12. Genetic Memetic Model of Mental Illness
• 14. Diagnostic Scheme for a Memetic Multiaxial Model of Mental Illness
• 15. Memetic Diagnosis
• 16. Memetic Therapies
• 17. Broad Spectrum Memetic Therapies
• 18. Specific Memetic Therapies
• 19. Memetic Prevention
• 20. Specific Syndromes, each subdivided into: 21. Future Challenges.