Randy Nesse is a psychiatrist, a professor, and the author of "Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry."
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(00:00) Intro
(00:40) Why low mood exists
(04:23) Giving up goals can improve your mental health
(06:48) When is it appropriate to give up goals?
(11:50) "In what situations was this emotion useful across our evolutionary history?"
(21:51) How Randy developed an evolutionary framework
(28:25) Examples of working with depression from Randy's career
(36:40) Freud, Jung, and mental illness
(49:23) Exposure therapy
(54:11) Quotes from "Good Reasons for Bad Feelings"
(59:55) Partner choice and selfish genes
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