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Psihopatologie evoluționistă
Profitând de evoluțiile spectaculoase ale geneticii, etologiei și științelor cognitive din ultimele decenii, psihologia evoluționistă a cunoscut o dezvoltare impresionantă, demonstrând în ce fel unele structuri și trăsături mentale pot fi considerate drept produse ale selecției naturale și sexuale. Volumul Psihopatologie evoluționistă prezintă sintetic și clar acea ramură a psihologiei evoluționiste care se interesează de explicația darwinistă a bolilor mentale. Astfel, cartea investighează posibilitatea ca unele dintre tulburările psihice (depresia, anxietatea, schizofrenia, autismul, anorexia etc.) să fie, de fapt, niște rezultate adaptative care în trecut au conferit avantaje speciei umane, dar care au devenit dezadaptative în societatea modernă. Volumul de față prezintă abordările teoretice recente din acest domeniu încă tânăr, precum și aplicații pentru psihoterapie.
Cezar Giosan este doctor în psihologie la New School for Social Research din New York. În prezent, este profesor de psihologie la Berkeley College (New York) și profesor adjunct la City University din New York. Dr. Giosan menține legături academice strânse cu Universitatea din București și cu Universitatea "Babeș-Bolyai", iar articolele sale sunt citate în sute de reviste academice cu impact ridicat.
Cezar Giosan este doctor în psihologie la New School for Social Research din New York. În prezent, este profesor de psihologie la Berkeley College (New York) și profesor adjunct la City University din New York. Dr. Giosan menține legături academice strânse cu Universitatea din București și cu Universitatea "Babeș-Bolyai", iar articolele sale sunt citate în sute de reviste academice cu impact ridicat.
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Published January 1, 2016
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Cezar Giosan
11 books4 followersBIOGRAPHY
I was born in the North of Romania in a fantastic small town hidden in mountains and surrounded by lakes and rivers. When I meet people from other countries I like to tell them that I was born in Transylvania, Dracula's country, which is actually not true... I began to be interested in science from secondary school when I accidentally came across some easy books on the relativity theory. I was so fascinated with the ideas that light can curve near gravitational masses, that time can be contracted or dilated as a function of velocity, etc., that I decided to attend a theoretic high school majoring in mathematics and physics. At the same time, however, I realized that we would never be able to understand what matter, space, and time were, until we would understand how our minds worked. Consequently, I started reading philosophy, hoping that I would find some answers in that discipline. Although I found philosophy very interesting and challenging, I soon realized that it only raised questions, admittedly very good ones, but failed to deliver good answers. So, I turned to psychology, with the hope that analyzing major philosophical questions, like the Mind-Body problem, with scientific methods, would prove helpful in bringing some objectivity to the answers I was looking for. And my feeling was that it did. This existential battle happened while in high school.. During that time, I became well familiarized with Freud's psychoanalysis, being for many years its fanatic supporter. It was very late, after embracing some of Karl Popper's ideas, when I realized that psychoanalysis was far from being a science, as I understood it.
After high school I went for one year in the mandatory Romanian Army, which I greatly enjoyed. University degree programs in psychology had been abolished during the Communist era because they were considered a threat to the communist regime, so in 1989 I entered a B.S./M.S. program at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, which I graduated in 1994, getting an M.S. in mechanical engineering. As soon as I got the degree, I became an undergraduate student in psychology at the University of Bucharest. This was soon after the Revolution, when academic programs in psychology were reestablished. I hurried and finished the program in three years, Magna Cum Laude (1994-1997) and I was subsequently admitted as a doctoral student in organizational psychology at the University of Bucharest. In parallel, I started working as a teacher, and then as a human resources manager in a private marketing company based in Bucharest. Working in human resources made me discover new horizons, as I realized that I could get much satisfaction in nonacademic settings, which I had never believed before. Since then, I have always oscillated between pursuing an academic career and a career in industry.
I have never finished the Ph.D. program in organizational psychology in Bucharest, because in 1998 two major events happened: I won a green card at the Visa Lottery, which allowed me to come to the United States with all the rights and, at the same time, I was offered a Fulbright Fellowship for graduate study in psychology in the US. I had to choose between the two, for they excluded each other, and I decided to take the green card, giving up the Fulbright. It was a tough decision, but after I made it I enthusiastically came to the United States prepared to start over and work as a cab driver, but I was soon admitted into a doctoral program in psychology at the New School for Social Research, New York.
I finished my PhD in 2003 with a dissertation on voluntary turnover. After pursuing a postdoctoral position at WMC of Cornell University (2003-2004), I was appointed an Instructor of Psychology at the same institution, in the Department of Psychiatry, and then Assistant Professor. I also teach undergraduate courses (psychology, group dynamics, mathematics) at Berkeley College, New York.
I was born in the North of Romania in a fantastic small town hidden in mountains and surrounded by lakes and rivers. When I meet people from other countries I like to tell them that I was born in Transylvania, Dracula's country, which is actually not true... I began to be interested in science from secondary school when I accidentally came across some easy books on the relativity theory. I was so fascinated with the ideas that light can curve near gravitational masses, that time can be contracted or dilated as a function of velocity, etc., that I decided to attend a theoretic high school majoring in mathematics and physics. At the same time, however, I realized that we would never be able to understand what matter, space, and time were, until we would understand how our minds worked. Consequently, I started reading philosophy, hoping that I would find some answers in that discipline. Although I found philosophy very interesting and challenging, I soon realized that it only raised questions, admittedly very good ones, but failed to deliver good answers. So, I turned to psychology, with the hope that analyzing major philosophical questions, like the Mind-Body problem, with scientific methods, would prove helpful in bringing some objectivity to the answers I was looking for. And my feeling was that it did. This existential battle happened while in high school.. During that time, I became well familiarized with Freud's psychoanalysis, being for many years its fanatic supporter. It was very late, after embracing some of Karl Popper's ideas, when I realized that psychoanalysis was far from being a science, as I understood it.
After high school I went for one year in the mandatory Romanian Army, which I greatly enjoyed. University degree programs in psychology had been abolished during the Communist era because they were considered a threat to the communist regime, so in 1989 I entered a B.S./M.S. program at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, which I graduated in 1994, getting an M.S. in mechanical engineering. As soon as I got the degree, I became an undergraduate student in psychology at the University of Bucharest. This was soon after the Revolution, when academic programs in psychology were reestablished. I hurried and finished the program in three years, Magna Cum Laude (1994-1997) and I was subsequently admitted as a doctoral student in organizational psychology at the University of Bucharest. In parallel, I started working as a teacher, and then as a human resources manager in a private marketing company based in Bucharest. Working in human resources made me discover new horizons, as I realized that I could get much satisfaction in nonacademic settings, which I had never believed before. Since then, I have always oscillated between pursuing an academic career and a career in industry.
I have never finished the Ph.D. program in organizational psychology in Bucharest, because in 1998 two major events happened: I won a green card at the Visa Lottery, which allowed me to come to the United States with all the rights and, at the same time, I was offered a Fulbright Fellowship for graduate study in psychology in the US. I had to choose between the two, for they excluded each other, and I decided to take the green card, giving up the Fulbright. It was a tough decision, but after I made it I enthusiastically came to the United States prepared to start over and work as a cab driver, but I was soon admitted into a doctoral program in psychology at the New School for Social Research, New York.
I finished my PhD in 2003 with a dissertation on voluntary turnover. After pursuing a postdoctoral position at WMC of Cornell University (2003-2004), I was appointed an Instructor of Psychology at the same institution, in the Department of Psychiatry, and then Assistant Professor. I also teach undergraduate courses (psychology, group dynamics, mathematics) at Berkeley College, New York.
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June 22, 2019
O incursiune într-un domeniu fascinant şi provocator din punct de vedere ştiinţific dar care face progrese semnificative fiind util în multe domenii conexe ştiinţelor comportamentului animal uman şi non-uman.
Prof. Cezar Giosan a reuşit să sintetizeze cu succes studii recente ce vizează psihopatologia sub egida modelui explicativ evoluţionist, oferind o scurtă introducere bine conturată într-un model complex.
Prof. Cezar Giosan a reuşit să sintetizeze cu succes studii recente ce vizează psihopatologia sub egida modelui explicativ evoluţionist, oferind o scurtă introducere bine conturată într-un model complex.
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