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E. Fuller Torrey is een heel omstreden psychiater en specialist schizofrenie. Torrey legt in dit boek zijn visie op de psychiatrie uit. Freud en de psychoanalyse worden neergebliksemd en hij legt het toenmalige medische model, naast zijn eigen model, het neo-educationele model. Tot daar nog niets aan de hand, maar Torrey kreeg banbliksems over zich heen n.a.v. zijn manier van werken en denken: andersdenkenden werd alle hulp ontzegd, statistieken en onderzoeken werden door elkaar gegooid om zo de resultaten te krijgen die hij wou om zijn theorieën te bewijzen, … Dit boek uit 1974 kan je niet zomaar zien als een uitloper van de antipsychiatrie uit de jaren ’60: Torrey botste bijvoorbeeld ook met Thomas Szasz, één van de grondleggers van deze antipsychiatrie. De omstreden Torrey had meer vijanden dan sympathisanten, laat dat duidelijk zijn. Een boek dat dus vooral interessant is in het kader van de geschiedenis van de psychiatrie.

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In 1963, President John F. Kennedy delivered an historic speech on mental illness and retardation. He described sweeping new programs to replace ""the shabby treatment of the many millions of the mentally disabled in custodial institutions"" with treatment in community mental health centers. This movement, later referred to as ""deinstitutionalization,"" continues to impact mental health care. Though he never publicly acknowledged it, the program was a tribute to Kennedy's sister Rosemary, who was born mildly retarded and developed a schizophrenia-like illness. Terrified she'd become pregnant,

Mentally ill --- Mental health policy --- Mental health services --- Behavioral health care --- Mental health care --- Psychiatric care --- Psychiatric services --- Medical care --- Insane --- Mental illness --- Mental patients --- Mentally disordered --- Sick --- People with mental disabilities --- Care --- History. --- Services for --- Evaluation. --- Patients

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Religions and mythologies from around the world teach that God or gods created humans. Atheist, humanist, and materialist critics, meanwhile, have attempted to turn theology on its head, claiming that religion is a human invention. In this book, E. Fuller Torrey draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to propose a startling answer to the ultimate question. Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods locates the origin of gods within the human brain, arguing that religious belief is a by-product of evolution. Based on an idea originally proposed by Charles Darwin, Torrey marshals evidence that the emergence of gods was an incidental consequence of several evolutionary factors. Using data ranging from ancient skulls and artifacts to brain imaging, primatology, and child development studies, this book traces how new cognitive abilities gave rise to new behaviors. For instance, autobiographical memory, the ability to project ourselves backward and forward in time, gave Homo sapiens a competitive advantage. However, it also led to comprehension of mortality, spurring belief in an alternative to death. Torrey details the neurobiological sequence that explains why the gods appeared when they did, connecting archaeological findings including clothing, art, farming, and urbanization to cognitive developments. This book does not dismiss belief but rather presents religious belief as an inevitable outcome of brain evolution. Providing clear and accessible explanations of evolutionary neuroscience, Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods will shed new light on the mechanics of our deepest mysteries.

Religion --- Anthropology of religion --- Brain --- 291.11 --- Religious anthropology --- Ethnology --- Philosophy --- Evolution --- Godsdienst:--oorsprong; ontwikkeling; natuur

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Religions and mythologies from around the world teach that God or gods created humans. Atheist, humanist, and materialist critics, meanwhile, have attempted to turn theology on its head, claiming that religion is a human invention. In this book, E. Fuller Torrey draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to propose a startling answer to the ultimate question. Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods locates the origin of gods within the human brain, arguing that religious belief is a by-product of evolution.Based on an idea originally proposed by Charles Darwin, Torrey marshals evidence that the emergence of gods was an incidental consequence of several evolutionary factors. Using data ranging from ancient skulls and artifacts to brain imaging, primatology, and child development studies, this book traces how new cognitive abilities gave rise to new behaviors. For instance, autobiographical memory, the ability to project ourselves backward and forward in time, gave Homo sapiens a competitive advantage. However, it also led to comprehension of mortality, spurring belief in an alternative to death. Torrey details the neurobiological sequence that explains why the gods appeared when they did, connecting archaeological findings including clothing, art, farming, and urbanization to cognitive developments. This book does not dismiss belief but rather presents religious belief as an inevitable outcome of brain evolution. Providing clear and accessible explanations of evolutionary neuroscience, Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods will shed new light on the mechanics of our deepest mysteries.

Religion --- Anthropology of religion. --- Brain --- Philosophy. --- Evolution.

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