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

by Hoyle Leigh

Book Overview

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"