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Contents:
Genes and mental illness
How does stress work? the role of memes in epigenesis
Culture and mental illness
Genetic-memetic model of mental illness-migration and natural disasters as illustrations
What do we inherit from our parents and ancestors?
Genes
Evolution
Learning, imitation, and memes
Storage and evolution of memes in the brain
External storage of memes: culture, media, cyberspace
Culture and the individual
What is mental health
What is mental illness?
Psychiatric diagnosis: toward a memetic-epigenetic multiaxial model
Memetic diagnosis, memetic assessment and biopsychosocial epigenetic formulation
Principles of memetic therapy
Broad-spectrum memetic therapy
Specific memetic therapies
Genetic-memetic prevention
Overview of specific syndromes
Attention-cognition spectrum syndromes: delirium, dementia, impulse control syndromes, ADHD, antisocial personality, obsessive-compulsive personality traits, obsessive-compulsive syndrome
Anxiety-mood spectrum syndromes: anxiety, panic, phobias, ASD, PTSD, borderline syndrome, dependent and avoidant personalities, social phobia, bipolarity and mania, depression-neurotic and syndromic, adjustment disorders
Reality perception spectrum syndromes (imagination, dissociation, conversion, somatoform, misattribution somatization, psychosis)
Pleasure spectrum syndromes (substance use/abuse, additions to substances and beliefs, fanaticism)
Primary memetic syndromes: eating disorders, factitious disorders, malingering, meme-directed destructive behaviors
Challenges for the future.