EPSIG resources

Please see below for resources from the Evolutionary Psychiatry SIG.

Recommended reading list (books)

• Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health, edited by Riadh Abed and Paul St John-Smith
• Good Reason for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontiers of Evolutionary Psychiatry, by Randolph Nesse
• Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind, by David Buss
• The Oxford Handbook on Evolution and the Emotions, edited by Laith Al-Shawaf and Todd K. Shackelford
• The Evolutionary Roots of Human Brain Diseases, edited by Nico J. Diederich, Martin Brüne, Katrin Amunts and Christopher G. Goetz 
• The Nature of Nurture, by Jay Belsky
• Textbook of Evolutionary Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine, by Martin Brune
• Evolutionary Psychopathology, by Marco Del Giudice
• Principles of Evolutionary Medicine, by Peter Gluckman, Alan Beedle, Tatjana Buklijas, Felicia Low, Mark Hanson
• Evolution of Forensic Psychiatry, by Robert Sadoff
• Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships, by Robin Dunbar
• The Compassionate Mind, by Paul Gilbert

Many of these books are available for members to borrow from the College Library.

Other resources

• What we do poster
• Glossary of terms
• The work of the late Dr John Scott Price, a pioneer of evolutionary psychiatry

EPSIG meeting minutes

Videos

Mental health from an evolutionary perspective

Dr Derek Tracy and Dr Riadh Abed hosted a special event for RCPsych staff on Thursday 21 May 2020 to mark Mental Health Awareness Week.