Good Reasons for Bad Feelings will fascinate anyone who wonders how our minds can be so powerful, yet so fragile, and how love and goodness came to exist in organisms shaped to maximize Darwinian fitness. Taken together, these insights and many more help to explain the pervasiveness of human suffering, and show us new paths for relieving it. Other mental disorders, such as addiction and anorexia, result from the mismatch between modern environments and our ancient human past. Nesse (Author) 254 ratings 4.0 on Goodreads 1,506 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 14.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. All who want to know themselves should read it. Nesse Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry Hardcover Januby Randolph M. Low mood prevents us from wasting effort in pursuit of unreachable goals, but it often escalates into pathological depression. Good Reasons for Bad Feelings integrates these two strands of his life and thought in a readable, insightful book, as much a philosophy of emotions as it is a new window on mental illness.
Anxiety protects us from harm in the face of danger, but false alarms are inevitable. Instead of asking why certain people suffer from mental illness, Nesse asks why natural selection has left us with fragile minds at all.ĭrawing 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. Now he returns with a book that transforms our understanding of mental disorders by exploring a fundamentally new question. With his classic book Why We Get Sick, Randolph Nesse established the field of evolutionary medicine. One of the worlds most respected psychiatrists provides a much-needed new evolutionary framework for making sense of mental illness
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