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Depths The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic

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ISBN-10: 0465022219

ISBN-13: 9780465022212

Edition: 2014

Authors: Jonathan Rottenberg

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Why are we losing the fight against depression? In this groundbreaking work, psychologist Jonathan Rottenberg explains that despite advances in pharmaceutical science, progress has been hampered by our fundamental misunderstanding of depression as a psychological or chemical defect. Instead, Rottenberg introduces a surprising alternative: that depression is a particularly severe outgrowth of our natural capacity for emotion; it is a low mood gone haywire. Drawing on recent developments in the science of mood—and his own harrowing depressive experience as a young adult—Rottenberg explains depression in evolutionary terms, showing how its dark pull arises from adaptations that evolved to help…    
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Book details

List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 2/11/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 5.67" wide x 8.54" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English