If you love ebooks, it might be because they are portable, and legible enough, and capable of delivering streams of words, fiction and nonfiction, into your eyes and brain with relative ease. If you hate ebooks like I do, that loathing might attach to their dim screens, their wonky typography, their weird pagination, their unnerving ephemerality, or the prison house of a proprietary ecosystem. I don’t know, except for knowing that ebooks are awful. Maybe I can’t stand the idea of looking at books as computers after a long day of looking at computers as computers. Perhaps, despite my long career in technology and media, I’m a secret Luddite. I hate them, but I don’t know why I hate them. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.P erhaps you’ve noticed that ebooks are awful. 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. 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. Now he returns with a book that transforms our understanding of mental disorders by exploring a fundamentally new question. With his classic book Why We Get Sick, Randolph Nesse established the field of evolutionary medicine.
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