{"podcast":{"title":"Keep Talking","slug":"keep-talking-1331245","podcast_index_feed_id":1331245,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/humans/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/humans","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/humans/20210520_005222_a8e19a4cd6d9a7bc6e33dc39aa33e2b3.jpg","author":"Dan Riley","episode_count":155,"summary":"\"Keep Talking\" exists to have conversations that might help to make a better society and a better culture. I believe that each guest has important information and stories to make public. And it's something that I want to share.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-20T02:20:25.098457+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 123: Randy Nesse - The Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry","slug":"episode-123-randy-nesse-the-frontier-of-evolutionary-psychiatry","published_at":"2024-10-04T09:00:30+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245/episode-123-randy-nesse-the-frontier-of-evolutionary-psychiatry","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/humans/1680215","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/14586/1680215/humans/2024_10_01_10_15_15_a6029881-7b11-4560-a641-b3b435320c7f.mp3","summary":"Randy Nesse is a psychiatrist, a professor, and the author of \"Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry.\" ------------ Book Dan to do an interview or a meeting ------------ Keep Talking Substack Spotify Apple Podcasts Social media and all episodes ------------ Support via Venmo Support on Substack Support on Patreon ------------ (00:00) Intro (00:40) Why low mood exists (04:23) Giving up goals can improve your mental health (06:48) When is it appropriate to give up goals? (11:50) \"In what situations was this emotion useful across our evolutionary history?\" (21:51) How Randy developed an evolutionary framework (28:25) Examples of working with depression from Randy's career (36:40) Freud, Jung, and mental illness (49:23) Exposure therapy (54:11) Quotes from \"Good Reasons for Bad Feelings\" (59:55) Partner choice and selfish genes","meta_description":"Randy Nesse is a psychiatrist, a professor, and the author of \"Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry.\" ----…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3825,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/keep-talking-1331245/episodes/episode-123-randy-nesse-the-frontier-of-evolutionary-psychiatry/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245/episode-123-randy-nesse-the-frontier-of-evolutionary-psychiatry.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}