Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. 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. Low mood prevents us from wasting effort in pursuit of unreachable goals, but it often escalates into pathological depression. In 'Good Reasons for Bad Feelings', Randolph Nesse provide us with news and, at some point, revolutionary insights on a wide variety of 'emotions and feelings', using evolutionary lens that change our perspective in new directions: and what if not all mental disorders are really 'illnesses', but some of them are mismatch of our species because. Anxiety protects us from harm in the face of danger, but false alarms are inevitable. 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 excessive. Instead of asking why certain people suffer from mental illness, Nesse asks why natural selection has left us all with fragile minds. and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Now he returns with a book that transforms our understanding of mental disorders by exploring a fundamentally new question. : Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry (9780141984919) by Nesse, Randolph M. With his classic book Why We Get Sick, Randolph Nesse established the field of evolutionary medicine.
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