Meredith F. Small
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“For all we know, our ancestors may have had better reproductive success not because they were smart, but because they were emotionally sensitive, dynamically moody, and ridden with anxiety. In other words, it makes sense to hold up an evolutionary lens to mental disorders because they might not be disorders at all, but adaptations.”
― The Culture of Our Discontent: Beyond the Medical Model of Mental Illness
― The Culture of Our Discontent: Beyond the Medical Model of Mental Illness
“Perhaps periods of anxiety, sadness, panic, and sheer craziness are just part of the mental continuum that nature has provided to help us stay alive, make babies, and pass on genes.”
― The Culture of Our Discontent: Beyond the Medical Model of Mental Illness
― The Culture of Our Discontent: Beyond the Medical Model of Mental Illness
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