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New Perspectives in Psychiatry: Relevance of the Psychopathological Animal Model to the Human.- I. Instinctual and Environmental Learning.- Factors Affecting Responses to Social Separation in Rhesus Monkeys.- Human Personality Development in an Ethological Light.- Discussion of Suomi and Bowlby Chapters.- Prenatal and Postnatal Factors in Gender Identity.- Workshop I (Moderated by Harry F. Harlow).- II. Conflict of Adaptation to Changed or Induced Environmental Conditions.- Phylogenetic and Cultural Adaptation in Human Behavior.- Unpredictability in the Etiology of Behavioral Deviations.- Animal Models of Violence and Hyperkinesis: Interaction of Psychopharmacologic and Psychosocial Therapy in Behavior Modification.- Coping Behavior and Neurochemical Changes in Rats: An Alternative Explanation for the Original "Learned Helplessness" Experiments.- Discussion.- Workshop II (Moderated by Howard F. Hunt).- III. Neurophysiological Experimental Modification of the Animal Model as Applied to Man.- The Use of Differences and Similarities in Comparative Psychopathology.- Animal Models for Brain Research.- Drug Effects on Foot-Shock-Induced Agitation in Mice.- Indole Hallucinogens as Animal Models of Schizophrenia.- Discussion.- Animal Models for Human Psychopathology: Observations from the Vantage Point of Clinical Psychopharmacology.- Workshop III (Moderated by Ronald D. Myers).- Concluding Remarks.- The Significance of Ethology for Psychiatry.- Index of Names.

The classic studies of Kluever and Bucy (1939), which by now have been reproduced repeatedly by many experimenters, have called attention to a syndrome of behavioral changes that occurs in the monkey after bilateral temporal lobectomy, or with lesion restricted to the amygdaloid nuclei. These changes can be briefly characterized as: 1) a decrease in belligerence and a reduction of fear toward normally fear-inducing objects including man; 2) a tendency to investigate orally and generally contact orally inedible objects including coprophagia and uriposia; 3) increased and inappropriate sexual behavior; 4) “hypermetamorphosis.”