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

by Hoyle Leigh

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What produces mental illness: genes, environment, both, neither? The answer can be found in memes--replicable units of information linking genes and environment in the memory and in culture--whose effects on individual brain development can be benign or toxic. This book reconceptualizes mental disorders as products of stressful gene-meme interactions and introduces a biopsychosocial template for meme-based diagnosis and treatment. A range of therapeutic...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1441956700

ISBN13:9781441956705

Release Date:May 2010

Publisher:Springer

Length:300 Pages

Weight:1.35 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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