{"product_id":"ethology-and-psychiatry-norman-f-white-9780802033123","title":"Ethology and Psychiatry","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book signals the first comprehensive attempt to examine the territory shared by ethology and psychiatry. It is designed both as an introduction to, and as a reference-source book for, the relationship between the two disciplines. Eminent authors from both fields comment on the concerns with ethologists and psychiatrists share and investigate how ethology might be used to help understand distressed and disordered human behaviour. Scientific recognition has been given to this cruicial theoretical link in the 1973 Nobel Medicine award to Lorenz, Tinbergen, and von Frisch. \u003cbr\u003eAlthough it is scarcely novel to postulate that human behaviour and experience ought to be appreciated in biological terms, our facile translation of zoological nations into human terms has often been naive. Men is an evolving species and it is within this context, the contributors argue, that all our ideas about his existence are best understood. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese essays touch on some enormously important social issues and introduce a conceptual advance in the approach to human dysfunction. They will be valuable for biological scientists and workers in the 'helping professions' and important and stimulating for a wide range of general readers as well. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese essays tough on some enormously important social issues and introduce a conceptual advance in the approach to human dysfunction. They will be valuable for biological scientists and workers in the 'helping professions' and important and stimulating for a wide range of general readers as well. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fourteen chapters of this volume offer guidance for the application of animal studies to human questions. Specific topic areas include mother\/infant relationships, learning, aggression, the evolution of interpersonal behaviour, and social organization. Observations have been gathered from several species, including monkeys, baboons, birds, and cats -- as well as humans. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe contents arose out of the third annual Hincks Memorial Lecture, held under the auspices of the Ontario Mental Health Foundation, at McMaster University. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Norman F. White\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802033121\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802033123\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/1974\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d","brand":"Norman F. White","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48448957251839,"sku":"9780802033123","price":41.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_aa095857-709c-48e7-b5fe-41d79abad281.jpg?v=1777261341","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ethology-and-psychiatry-norman-f-white-9780802033123","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}