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Good Reasons for Bad Feelings

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Good Reasons for Bad Feelings

By Randolph M. Nesse

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About the book

One of the world's most respected psychiatrists provides a much-needed new evolutionary framework for making sense of mental illnessWith his classic book Why We Get Sick, Randolph Nesse established 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 with fragile minds at all.Drawin...Show more

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9780241291085

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

2018

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1

Original title

Good Reasons for Bad Feelings

Format

Hardcover

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