Book · 2015

Personality Conditions

Michael McGuire, Alfonso Troisi

Oxford Clinical Psychology

Abstract

The chapter begins with discussions of adaptive genetic variation and phenotypic plasticity, life history strategies, short-term strategies, prevailing models of personality disorders, and traits. These topics introduce new points and briefly review key points discussed earlier in order to set the context for the second part of the chapter, where personality disorders are interpreted in an evolutionary context.

DOI: 10.1093/med:psych/9780195116731.003.0009