Why Did Evolution Leave Us Vulnerable to Mental Disorders? A Q&A with Randolph Nesse ( @randynesse.bsky.social ) Nesse provides a great introduction to evolutionary psychiatry and corrects important misconceptions about the discipline in this interview. www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/why-did-ev... - ThreadSky

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Why Did Evolution Leave Us Vulnerable to Mental Disorders? A Q&A with Randolph Nesse ( @randynesse.bsky.social )

Nesse provides a great introduction to evolutionary psychiatry and corrects important misconceptions about the discipline in this interview.

https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/why-did-evolution-leave-us-vulnerable

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benendure.bsky.social•11 days ago

Super interesting and useful! I think this framework is very helpful for psychotherapists, who, like me, can be allergic to evolutionary explanations for fear of reductionism.

vedetta.bsky.social•11 days ago

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awaisaftab.bsky.social•11 days ago

“Diseases are not adaptations shaped by natural selection. They are not universal traits. They harm fitness. Trying to explain diseases as if they were somehow useful gives rise to a conceptual fog…” Nesse

awaisaftab.bsky.social•11 days ago

A neat summary, and Nesse shares an updated version of this list in the interview.

adigitaltanay.bsky.social•11 days ago

@awaisaftab.bsky.social I think this list has been historically useful for the field. An updated list that takes principles of evolutionary biology more seriously (i.e. measuring fitness of traits) has been put forth by @realadamhunt.bsky.social here: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/qbgke_v1

awaisaftab.bsky.social•11 days ago

Adam doing great work in this area! Hope to feature it in some way in the future

adigitaltanay.bsky.social•11 days ago

That would be huge in terms of correcting popular misconceptions of the field. He’s also released a 3-part episode on his podcast, evolving psychiatry, to come up with better methods to tackle just-so storytelling

zeerohbovine.bsky.social•11 days ago

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