Social Darwinism and psychopathology
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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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