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.
Why do I feel bad? There is real power in understanding our bad feelings. With his classic Why We Get Sick, Dr. Randolph Nesse helped to establish the field of evolutionary medicine. Now he returns with a boo...
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.
Why do I feel bad? There is real power in understanding our bad feelings. With his classic Why We Get Sick, Dr. Randolph Nesse helped to establish the field of evolutionary medicine. Now he returns with a book 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 overwhelming. Anxiety protects us from harm in the face of danger, but false alarms are inevitable. Low moods prevent us from wasting effort in pursuit of unreachable goals, but they often escalate into pathological depression. Other mental disorders, such as addiction and anorexia, result from the mismatch between modern environment 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.
Randolph M. Nesse, MD, is a founder of the field of evolutionary medicine and co-author with George C. Williams of Why We Get Sick. He served for many years as Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Psychology and Research Professor at the University of Michigan. He currently is the Founding Director of the Center for Evolution & Medicine at Arizona State University where he is ...
Randolph M. Nesse, MD, is a founder of the field of evolutionary medicine and co-author with George C. Williams of Why We Get Sick. He served for many years as Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Psychology and Research Professor at the University of Michigan. He currently is the Founding Director of the Center for Evolution & Medicine at Arizona State University where he is also a Foundation Professor in the School of Life Sciences. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, a distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and an elected Fellow of the AAAS.
蛮有意思的进化生物学和精神病学的讨论。很多practical的东西,比如里面影响情绪致郁的SOCIAL acronym: S stands for Social Resources; O is for Occupation; C is for Children and other family members; I is for Income and other sources of wealth...蛮有意思的进化生物学和精神病学的讨论。很多practical的东西,比如里面影响情绪致郁的SOCIAL acronym: S stands for Social Resources; O is for Occupation; C is for Children and other family members; I is for Income and other sources of wealth; A is for Abilities, health and other personal resources; L is for Love and sexual intimacy within a meaningful relationship.(展开)
"Groups with more individuals who are willing to SACRIFICE for the group grow faster than other groups do, so group selection is possible. However, alleles for such tendencies can persist only when three special circumstances are met: 1.groups with more cooperative individuals must grow much faster than groups with fewer cooperative individuals; individuals with alleles for helping must reprodu...
"Groups with more individuals who are willing to SACRIFICE for the group grow faster than other groups do, so group selection is possible. However, alleles for such tendencies can persist only when three special circumstances are met: 1.groups with more cooperative individuals must grow much faster than groups with fewer cooperative individuals; individuals with alleles for helping must reprodu...
"Groups with more individuals who are willing to SACRIFICE for the group grow faster than other groups do, so group selection is possible. However, alleles for such tendencies can persist only when three special circumstances are met: 1.groups with more cooperative individuals must grow much faster than groups with fewer cooperative individuals; individuals with alleles for helping must reprodu...
0 有用 小鱼Slowdown 2022-09-29 10:16:23 上海
从进化论角度,焦虑并不是削弱我们的力量来躲避危险,反而是一种特别“聪明”的人体机能,心跳加速和肌肉紧张等,恰恰是在高速调动身体机能,让我们反击危险或者逃离险境....
1 有用 折腾 2019-08-30 16:44:10
挺有意思。。。
1 有用 车瑞希 2019-11-05 14:12:58
蛮有意思的进化生物学和精神病学的讨论。很多practical的东西,比如里面影响情绪致郁的SOCIAL acronym: S stands for Social Resources; O is for Occupation; C is for Children and other family members; I is for Income and other sources of wealth... 蛮有意思的进化生物学和精神病学的讨论。很多practical的东西,比如里面影响情绪致郁的SOCIAL acronym: S stands for Social Resources; O is for Occupation; C is for Children and other family members; I is for Income and other sources of wealth; A is for Abilities, health and other personal resources; L is for Love and sexual intimacy within a meaningful relationship. (展开)
1 有用 ZZ 2019-11-06 02:32:53
这本书很棒。作者从进化的角度来解释心里疾病,耳目一新。学了不少,但是不知道能在脑子里留下多少。
0 有用 采葛 2025-04-09 04:33:38 瑞士
不好看