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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Instead of asking why certain people suffer from mental illness, Nesse asks why natural selection has left us all with fragile minds. 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 overwhelming. Anxiety protects us from harm in the face of danger, but false alarms are inevitable. Low moods prevent us from wasting...
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When Lt. Cmdr. Kraft's twin son and daughter were fifteen months old, she was deployed to Iraq. A clinical psychologist in the US Navy, Kraft's job was to uncover the wounds that a surgeon would never see. She put away thoughts of her children back home, acclimated to the sound of incoming rockets, and learned how to listen to the most traumatic stories a war zone has to offer. One of the toughest lessons of her deployment was perfectly articulated...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"It's not a question of if, but when will we meet the other beings that most certainly inhabit the rest of the cosmos. How can we prepare for an event that is literally beyond anything humanity has ever faced? The idea of UFOs is not as simple as merely crafts from other worlds. Rather the whole field is an ongoing and expanding enigma of strange effects and subtle possibilities. In Making Contact you will discover how alien encounters are literally...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In 1987, only 3 perfect of American children were diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. In 2014 the number rose to an alarming 11 percent. Wedge questioned why, if ADHD is a true biological disorder of the brain, the rate of diagnosis is so much higher in America that it was abroad. She argues that different approaches to therapy, parenting, diet and education may explain why rates of ADHD are so much lower in other countries.
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