Good reasons for bad feelings: insights from the frontier of evolutionary psychiatry

Part One. Why are mental disorders so confusing? 1. A new question

2. Are mental disorders diseases?

3. Why are minds so vulnerable?

Part Two. Reasons for Feelings. 4. Good reasons for bad feelings

5. Anxiety and smoke detectkors

6. Low mood and the art of giving up

7. Bad feelins for no good reason: When the moodostat fails.

Part Three. The Pleasures and Perils of Social Life. 8. How to understand an individual human being

9. Guilt and grief: The price of goodness and love

10. Know thyself - NOT!

Part Four. Out-of-control Actions and Dire Disorders. 11. Bad sex can be good - for our genes

12. Primal appetities

13. Good feelings for bad reasons

14. Minds unbalanced on fitness cliffs.

Epilogue: Evolutionary psychiatry: A bridge, not an island.