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Social Darwinism and psychopathology

Annals of General Psychiatry volume 9, Article number: S56 (2010) Cite this article

In recent years, aspects of Darwinism have been widely discussed in psychiatry to explain the origins of mood disorders [1–3]. Authors were particularly focusing on the psychopathology of depression, while other considerations in the field of affective disorders have more broadly included the phenomena of mania [4] and temperament [5]. This paper will review aspects of Darwinism in the psychopathology of mood and its social consequences.

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Erfurth, A. Social Darwinism and psychopathology. Ann Gen Psychiatry 9 (Suppl 1), S56 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1186/1744-859X-9-S1-S56

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