Most Depression is Not a Disorder | James Turner | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #49
Why does low mood, and at extreme, depression, exist? What is its function? James Turner is a postdoctoral researcher at Umeå University. He completed his PhD in Philosophy in 2024 at the University o...
17 Sep 20251h 14min
Evolutionary Explanations' Impact | Tom Carpenter | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #48
New results show that clinicians respond positively to evolutionary explanations of anxiety. In this episode, Adam and Tom discuss some of the findings of their study "Clinicians' attitudes to evoluti...
10 Sep 202547min
Modern Dating and Negative Thinking | Leif Kennair | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #47
Why dating apps can't last; defeating negative thinking; and exposure to sensible risk.Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair is a Clinical Psychologist and a Professor of Personality Psychology at the Norwegian...
3 Sep 20251h 18min
The History of The Field (and Prof. Nesse) | Randolph Nesse | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #46
A special episode on how evolutionary psychiatry and medicine came to be. Randolph Nesse, father of the field, gives an overview of his background, what it was like having to try and build a field bef...
9 Maj 20251h 6min
Deciding between hypotheses | Adam Hunt | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #45
Stories abound in evolutionary psychology and psychiatry. How do we test them? In this third and final episode in this special series, Adam Hunt presents a way to standardise evolutionary hypothesis t...
21 Mars 20251h 33min
Hunting for function behind disorder (Part 2) | Adam Hunt | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #44
Trying to explain disorders as functional is tempting, but often misses a critical point: sometimes it is not the disorder itself which is functional, but it is occurring as a by-product of a differen...
21 Mars 20251h 12min
An impossible science? (Part 1) | Adam Hunt | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #43
Evolution has already happened, and we don't have a time machine: how can we test hypotheses about that process? This is a criticism raised since Darwin's time. In this special three part series, Adam...
21 Mars 202544min
Tech and Mental Health | Tanay Katiyar | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #42
Social media is bad for mental health right? Well... it's more complicated than that. In this episode, we discuss the ways in which novel digital technologies can also improve mental health, and how a...
26 Feb 20251h 25min
