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Good Reasons for Bad Feelings
- Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
- Gesprochen von: Arthur Morey
- Spieldauer: 11 Std. und 11 Min.
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A founder of the field of evolutionary medicine uses his decades of experience as a psychiatrist to provide a much-needed new framework for making sense of mental illness.
With his classic book Why We Get Sick, Dr. Randolph Nesse helped to establish the field of evolutionary medicine. Now, he returns with an audiobook that transforms our understanding of mental disorders by exploring a fundamentally new question. Instead of asking why certain people suffer from mental illness, Nesse asks why natural selection has left us all with fragile minds.
Drawing on revealing stories from his own clinical practice and insights from evolutionary biology, Nesse shows how negative emotions are useful in certain situations, yet can become excessive. Anxiety protects us from harm in the face of danger, but false alarms are inevitable. Low mood prevents us from wasting effort in pursuit of unreachable goals, but it often escalates into pathological depression. Other mental disorders, such as addiction and anorexia, result from the mismatch between modern environments and our ancient human past. And there are good evolutionary reasons for sexual disorders and for why genes for schizophrenia persist. Taken together, these and many more insights help to explain the pervasiveness of human suffering and show us new paths for relieving it by understanding individuals as individuals.
Includes a Bonus PDF of charts and visuals.
Cover art © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2018.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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"To quote a renowned geneticist, 'Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.' A quarter century ago, Randolph Nesse bravely helped apply this dictum to medicine. Now, in Good Reasons For Bad Feelings, he tackles the deeper evolutionary question of why we, our minds, and our brains are so vulnerable to mental illness. He navigates the dangers of either too much or too little adaptationism, deftly handles the false dichotomy between psychological and biological perspectives, and bridges abstract intellectualizing with pressing clinical need. This is a wise, accessible, highly readable exploration of an issue that goes to the heart of human existence." (Robert M. Sapolsky, author of Behave)
"An ingenious exploration of how Darwinian evolution explains mental disorders." (Kirkus Reviews)
“Nesse (Why We Get Sick), director of the Center for Evolutionary Medicine at Arizona State University, thought-provokingly comments on modern medicine’s continuing difficulties in treating mental illness.... Nesse fully meets his modest but laudable goal of providing a conversation-starter on why mental illness should be viewed from an evolutionary perspective.” (Publishers Weekly)
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- Henrik
- 10.08.2019
Evolutionary psychiatry clearly and personally .
I enjoyed the book, and will probably listen to it also a second time. I've listened to books by Arthur Morey more than once, and his voice is becoming the voice of my most thoughtful 'friend'.
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- László
- 08.06.2023
Evolutionary reasons are everywhere.
Short summary: bad feelings (in moderation) increase your odds of survival and thus your reproductive success, leading to evolutionary advantage. The rest is trying to fit everything to this frame. Pity that anything and the opposite can be reasoned this way, and the author’s arguments are not airtight. Furthermore, they provide little benefit to someone working in therapy (or to those willing to improve their own mood).
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