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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Natural selection and our modern world have given us great strengths and great weaknesses.
Chapter 3: Emotions enable us to stay alive and pass our genes to the next generation.
Chapter 4: Knowing why anxiety and panic attacks occur can make them easier to treat.
Chapter 5: Depression can arise when mood regulation systems stop working properly.
Chapter 6: Looking at depression through evolution lets us address causes, not just symptoms.
Chapter 7: Psychiatry can advance by becoming more individualized and person-centered.
Chapter 8: Kin selection and social selection may underlie our generous and selfless sides.
Chapter 9: Our ability to love and care brings with it worry and the pain of grief.
Chapter 10: Evolution’s focus on efficient reproduction sacrifices sexual satisfaction.
Chapter 11: The way we evolved clashes with today’s easy access to food and drugs.
Description
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings (2018) bridges the gap between evolutionary biology and psychiatry by answering some pressing questions about why we feel the way we do. By focusing on our evolutionary development, we can better understand where many of our most instinctual feelings, moods and emotions come from, and how we can better treat our disorders when they arise.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone affected by mental disorders
- People who want to better understand how the mind works
- Students of psychiatry and medicine