The 2012 Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico has posted its schedule (available here), and I’m thrilled to report that clinical content is well-represented! There is an entire talk section entitled “Darwinian Challenges to DSM and … Continue reading →

If you know anything about clinical or counseling psychology, chances are you’ve heard of the Diagnostics and Statistics Manual of Mental Disorders, currently in its fourth edition. It’s the standard for the identification and diagnosis of mental illness.The fifth edition … Continue reading →

This past weekend, I attended an introductory talk and workshop on Bayesian statistics at Vassar given by Indian University professor John Kruschke. Before I go on, I’d like to make three points very clear: 1) This post isn’t so much … Continue reading →

After thinking for several months that I was the only person with a blog about evolutionary clinical psychology, I’ve come across the excellent blogs of Emily Deans, M.D. Check them out…there’s Evolutionary Psychiatry at Psychology Today as well as her own … Continue reading →

I had been intending to do a post on phobias for a few weeks, when fellow EvoS Blogger Kaitlyn Andersen came in and scooped me on it. For reasons mentioned by Kaitlyn, the area of phobias is one very obvious … Continue reading →

You can tell an academic discipline is in its infancy when there are ten times as many names for it as there are graduate programs dedicated to its study. Such is the case with evolutionary clinical psychology…or should that be … Continue reading →