Ancestral Mental Health: Applied Evolutionary Psychology — Nando Pelusi, Ph.D. (AHS14)
Channel: AncestryFoundation
Date: 2014-08-24

Understanding why we do what we do and feel as we do often has roots in adaptations that solved problems of daily living for most of human history. Clinical psychology often fails to distinguish circumstances that are evolutionarily familiar from those that are evolutionarily novel, such living among strangers, large social networks, alcohol, high-calorie food, travel, etc. An evolutionary treatment of depression, anxiety, panic, social phobias, anger, and shame can mine research from Evolutionary Psychology.

Abstracts and information about the Ancestral Health Symposium can be found at www.ancestralhealth.org/ahs14-program.