Good Reasons for Bad Feelings Book

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This book 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 with fragile minds at all.

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. Anxiety protects us from harm in the face of danger, but false alarms are inevitable. Low mood prevents us from wasting effort in pursuit of unreachable goals, but it often escalates into pathological depression. Other mental disorders, such as addiction and anorexia, result from the mismatch between modern environments and our ancient human past. Taken together, these insights and many more help to explain the pervasiveness of human suffering, and show us new paths for relieving it.

Author: Randolph M. Nesse

Paperback: 384 pages

Book Dimensions: 16.2 x 3.5 x 24cm

About The Author

Randolph Nesse is an American physician, a founder of evolutionary medicine, a co-author with George C. Williams of the acclaimed 'Why We Get Sick'.

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