Good reasons for bad feelings : insights from the frontier of evolutionary psychiatry
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- ISBN: 9781101985663
- ISBN: 1101985666
- ISBN: 9781101985687
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xv, 365 pages ; 24 cm - Publisher: New York, New York : Dutton, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part one: Why are mental disorders so confusing? A new question -- Are mental disorders diseases? -- Why are minds so vulnerable? -- Part two: Reasons for feelings. Good reasons for bad feelings -- Anxiety and smoke detectors -- Low mood and the art of giving up -- Bad feelings for no good reason: when the moodostat fails -- Part three: The pleasures and perils of social life. How to understand an individual human being -- Guilt and grief: the price of goodness and love -- Know thyself: NOT! -- Part four: Out-of-control actions and dire disorders. Bad sex can be good, for our genes -- Primal appetites -- Good feelings for bad reasons -- Minds unbalanced on fitness cliffs -- Epilogue: Evolutionary psychiatry: a bridge, not an island. |
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Genre: | Nonfiction. History. History. |
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