Mental Darwinism and the evolution of the emotion-processing mind.

In an attempt to clarify the basis of a number of anomalous features of the cognitive mental module with which humans process and adapt to emotionally charged environmental or triggering events, the evolution of this module—the emotion-processing mind—is traced for the 6 million-year history of homi...

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Published in:American Journal of Psychotherapy Vol. 50; pp. 103 - 125
Main Author: Langs, Robert
Format: Article
Published: Association for the Advancement of Psychotherapy Winter 1996
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