Degree Date
5-2023
Document Type
Dissertation - NLU Access
Degree Name
Psy.D. Doctor of Clinical Psychology
Academic Discipline
Clinical Psychology
First Advisor
Bradley Olson, Ph.D.
Second Advisor
Tiffeny Jimenez, Ph.D.
Third Advisor
Judah Viola, Ph.D.
Abstract
This Clinical Research Project develops a proposal for the adaptive function of Freudian ambivalence through evolutionary psychology, a neo-Darwinian sub-paradigm. This proposal posits that Freudian ambivalence is a grand-superordinate adaptive program composed of two integrated bivalent superordinate programs that in turn instigate adaptive behavior. The one and then the other serve the following adaptive functions: (i) to compute the inclusive fitness costs and benefits of social objects; and (ii) to regulate adaptive psychological and physiological responses to social objects.
Recommended Citation
Wolff, David, "The Adaptive Function of Freudian Ambivalence, A Freudian Neo-Darwinian Synthesis" (2023). Dissertations. 738.
https://digitalcommons.nl.edu/diss/738