Our environments are vastly different from those we evolved in, making us vulnerable to addiction and eating disorders. The limits of natural selection offer one kind of answer, but several others are equally important. Instead of asking why some people get sick, it instead asks why natural selection left all of us so vulnerable to mental illness.
GOOD REASONS FOR BAD FEELINGS asks a fundamentally new question. Slow progress in finding causes and cures has inspired a growing chorus of calls for new approaches to mental disorders. David Barash in The Wall Street Journal If so, Randolph Nesse’s book should be seen as the field’s founding document. I do fully expect that someday nearly all psychiatry will be identified as evolutionary psychiatry.
In doing so, it will surely change the face of medicine - and deservedly so. This book sets out to show how evolution underpins (or should underpin) psychiatry. Michael RuseĪ provocative book full of intriguing explanations about human nature in all its strengths and weaknesses. It is no exaggeration to say that he opens the door to a new paradigm in thinking about human beings and their conflicted lives. Cutting-edge and compassionate at the same time -Lee Dugatkin Robert SapolskyĪ bold book that would have made Darwin proud. This is a wise, accessible, highly readable exploration of an issue that goes to the heart of human existence. This book explains why mental disorders exist at all, and how evolutionary biology can provide psychiatry with a scientific foundation that makes sense of mental illness and makes psychiatry more effective and humane. Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
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