Evolutionary Developmental Psychopathology: the 2001 thesis

About the thesis

Ian Pitchford's doctoral thesis, Evolutionary Developmental Psychopathology, was submitted to the University of Sheffield in September 2001. It asks how psychiatric classification, the development of mental capacities and their evolutionary history bear on one another, and argues that explanations of psychopathology need all three.

The thesis was examined early in 2002 by Professor Patrick Bateson FRS of the University of Cambridge and Professor Paul Gilbert. The degree was conferred on 24 July 2002.

Documents

• The thesis (PDF, 280 pages, 1.5 MB). An unchanged archival copy of the September 2001 thesis. Citations refer to its printed page numbers. Record.
• Patrick Bateson's examiner's report (PDF, 3 pages), dated 23 March 2002. Typeset from the author's copy of the original Word file, with the text reproduced in full and unaltered. Record.

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Rights

The thesis is copyright Ian Pitchford, all rights reserved, and is hosted with his permission. The examiner's report is copyright the estate of Sir Patrick Bateson, all rights reserved, and is reproduced by its permission. The site's CC0 dedication and MIT software licence do not apply to either document; see LICENSING.md.