Decatanzaro / Lykken Suicide and Self-Damaging Behavior

A Sociobiological Perspective
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4832-7401-0
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Web PDF

Suicide and Self-Damaging Behavior: A Sociobiological Perspective reviews the status of suicide and other exceptions to the prevailing regularities of behavior. This book discusses the apparent anomaly of self-destructive behavior; current incidence of suicide and self-injury; self-destructiveness in other species; and biological fitness and social ecology of suicide. The pro-suicidal gene expression and natural selection; death concept; breakdown of other life-preserving factors with coping failure; and selection processes and altruism are also elaborated. This text likewise covers the chronic self-abuse, risk taking, and self-injurious or self-mutilative behavior. This publication is a good source for anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists, and social scientists concerned with self-destructive behavior.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Decatanzaro, Denys

Lykken, David T.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Suicide and Self-Damaging Behavior: A Sociobiological Perspective;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;6
5;Preface;10
6;Chapter 1. The Apparent Anomaly of Self-Destructive Behavior;12
6.1;Assumptions about the Nature of Adaptive Behavior;13
6.2;Assumptions about Innate Determination versus Learning, and the Influence of Natural Selection;16
6.3;The Problem of Self-Destructiveness;19
6.4;A Précis of the Arguments;20
7;Chapter 2. The Current Incidence of Suicide and Self-Injury;24
7.1;Suicide;24
7.2;Parasuicide or Attempted Suicide;29
7.3;Chronic Suicide and Risk Taking;31
7.4;Self-Injurious or Self-Mutilative Behavior;32
7.5;Conclusions;33
8;Chapter 3. Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspective;36
8.1;The History of Suicide;37
8.2;Suicide in Primitive Cultures;39
8.3;Modern Ethnic, Racial, and Cultural Differences;43
8.4;Conclusions;48
9;Chapter 4. Self-Destructiveness in Other Species;50
9.1;"Suicide" among Social Insects;51
9.2;Migration, Emigration, and Population Dispersion;51
9.3;Kin Selection and Parental Investment;52
9.4;Self-Injury in Captivity and Experimental Conditions;53
9.5;A Laboratory "Suicide Paradigm";54
9.6;The "Sudden-Death" Phenomenon;54
9.7;Other Instances;54
9.8;Conclusions;56
10;Chapter 5. Biological Fitness and the Social Ecology of Suicide;58
10.1;Proximate Motivation of Suicide;58
10.2;Suicide in Childhood;65
10.3;Suicide in Adolescence and Early Adulthood;66
10.4;Age and Reproductive Status in Adult Suicide;69
10.5;Other Trends in Adult Suicide;75
10.6;Summary and Interpretation;77
11;Chapter 6. Cultural Evolution and Suicide;80
11.1;Technology and the Origin of Suicide;81
11.2;Transitions in Methods and Technology;83
11.3;Cognition and Suicide;84
11.4;The Death Concept;87
11.5;Imitation and Vicarious Learning;88
11.6;Summary and Conclusions;92
12;Chapter 7. Stress, Pathology, and Suicide;94
12.1;Maladaptive States and Inheritance;95
12.2;Environmental Stressors, Gene Expression, and Maladaptiveness;97
12.3;Suicide and Psychopathology;101
12.4;Rate of Adaptation to Harsh and Novel Environmental Contingencies;102
12.5;Pathogenic Conditions, Culture, and the Social Ecology of Suicide;103
13;Chapter 8. Coping Failure, Senescence, Gene Expression, and Suicide;106
13.1;Prosuicidal Gene Expression and Natural Selection;106
13.2;The Medawar-Williams Hypothesis, Senescence, and Death;109
13.3;Breakdown of Other Life-Preserving Factors with Coping Failure;110
13.4;Other Facets of Death and Senescence;112
13.5;Genetics and Suicide;113
13.6;Other Indirect Evidence of Genetic Involvement;114
13.7;Reconciling Gene-Expression and Cultural-Learning Involvement in Suicide;116
14;Chapter 9. Altruism and Suicide;120
14.1;Selection Processes and Altruism;121
14.2;Gene Sharing among Individuals;122
14.3;Relative Strengths of Different Orders of Selection;123
14.4;Kin Selection and Human Suicide;125
14.5;Group Benefit and Human Suicide;127
14.6;Aging, Reproductive Status, and Altruism;130
14.7;Modern Conditions and Exceptional or Aberrant Cases;132
14.8;Conclusions;134
15;Chapter 10. Suicide, Physiology, and Behavioral Predispositions;136
15.1;The Euphoria–Dysphoria Dimension;137
15.2;Brain Reinforcement or Reward Mechanisms;140
15.3;Stress, Hormones, and Neurochemistry;143
15.4;Monoamines and Suicide;144
15.5;Physiological Pain Mechanisms and Suicide;146
15.6;Conclusions;148
16;Chapter 11. Ethics and Suicide;150
16.1;Ethics as Modulators of Suicide Frequency;150
16.2;Ethics of Suicide;153
17;Chapter 12. Limitations and Qualifications;158
17.1;Suicide and Genetics;158
17.2;Exceptional Cases;159
17.3;Life Out of Context;160
17.4;Limits on the Predictive Nature of the Hypotheses;162
17.5;The Frequency of Suicide;163
17.6;Biases in Statistics on Suicide;164
17.7;Is Suicide a Unitary Phenomenon?;164
17.8;The Species Generality of the Phenomenon;165
17.9;Cognition, Learning, and Culture Revisited;165
18;Chapter 13. Suicide: A Synthesis;168
18.1;The State of Modern Suicidology;168
18.2;Imperfections in Biological Adaptation;170
18.3;Coping Strategies and Life Events;171
18.4;Coping Failure and Suicide;172
18.5;Mediation of Motivational Changes Accompanying Coping Failure;173
19;Chapter 14. Parasuicide and Suicide;176
19.1;Definitions of Parasuicide and Biases in Data;177
19.2;Social Ecology of Parasuicide;178
19.3;Follow-up Studies of Parasuicides;182
19.4;Lethality of the Suicide Attempt;183
19.5;Conclusions;184
20;Chapter 15. Chronic Self-Abuse, Risk Taking, and Other Self-Damaging Behavior;186
20.1;Chronic Self-Abuse;186
20.2;Risk Taking;195
20.3;Other Self-Damaging Behavioral Patterns;198
20.4;Summary and Conclusions;200
21;Chapter 16. Self-Injurious or Self-Mutilative Behavior;202
21.1;The Role of Learning;203
21.2;Physiological Malformation and Damage;206
21.3;Abnormalities in Environment;212
21.4;Learning Revisited;215
21.5;Relationship to Adaptation;216
22;Chapter 17. Toward an Expansion of Research Paradigms;218
22.1;Self-Damaging Behavior: A Supersynthesis;218
22.2;Critical Issues for Research;219
22.3;Final Statement;224
23;References;226
24;Author Index;246
25;Subject Index;254