Psychopathologies and cultural factors: some neo-evolutionist perspectives

In the recent Neuroscienze ed evoluzionismo per una concezione olistica delle psicopatologie e dei disturbi della personalità we present a detailed analysis of the influent factors that, proceeding from specific cultural “constellations”, could lead up to typical structures of personality and social behavior, driving dynamics of psych conditioning and exerting a weighty influence over the individual knowledge capacity and over all the advanced expressions involving human brain. In that work we follow the direction of search previously suggested in Metamorfosi della Ragione: esegesi evoluzionistico psicosociologica di Genesi 1,3 ed implicazioni bioetiche and in Il Dio laico: caos e libertà, where we set a formal division of the sacred dimension in two big classes: “theoethotomies” as social structures based on a marked ethical role of divinity, and “religions” as metaphysical systems infused with a non- moral divinity. In our essay we discuss a revision of the space where the environment modelling action and conditioning potentialities became operating. In fact, even though we do not reject the physical and biological foundation of genetic causes of psychic processes, concerning the species Homo s. sapiens, new theoretical proposals from neuroscience are upsetting the reference points, by tracing out a new explanatory pattern in which brain development cannot be intended outside the structural contribution of external environment and learning process.