The Specialised Mind will be Adam's first book. It explains the existence of long term, common mental disorders, and common personality traits as products of the same evolutionary process, of cognitive specialisation. An academic paper on the subject can be found here.

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An initial draft, which was turned into Adam's PhD thesis, also introduced the 'DCIDE' method, a new way of analysing psychological and biological conditions to ascertain whether they are likely to have evolved, and if so, what their evolutionary function could have been. More than any competing approach to discerning the cause of psychiatric conditions, this method relies on scientific evidence rather  than social consensus. You can find a brief outline of the method here in a special essay, and a paper is forthcoming.

 

Toby Mundy is serving as Adam's literary agent.