Saku M
Max-Planck-Institute for Psychiatry, Munich, Germany.
Jpn J Psychiatry Neurol. 1992 Sep;46(3):631-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1992.tb00536.x.
The interactions between ethology and psychiatry were reviewed. The ethological methods have provided more objective and theory-free observation techniques than the traditional psychiatric methods. The evolution-based ethological viewpoints afford some fundamentally new and more comprehensive approaches in understanding psychiatric conditions. The ethological theory has many concepts in common with various other schools of psychiatry, and thus is expected to act as a bridge to integrate them to lead to a more comprehensive psychiatric theory system. Ethology has not explored its potential in therapy, but may be useful, especially in terms of prevention and social psychiatry.
回顾了动物行为学与精神病学之间的相互作用。动物行为学方法比传统精神病学方法提供了更客观且无理论偏向的观察技术。基于进化的动物行为学观点为理解精神疾病状况提供了一些全新且更全面的方法。动物行为学理论与其他各种精神病学流派有许多共同概念，因此有望成为整合它们的桥梁，从而形成更全面的精神病学理论体系。动物行为学尚未探索其在治疗方面的潜力，但可能会有用，特别是在预防和社会精神病学方面。
