Category Archives: Evolutionary psychology

Emotional Fossils – II – “too harsh for a human being”

Posted on February 20, 2012 by J.V. Wylie

Having determined that the various mental illnesses were all reflective of evolved segments of normal emotion, and that the majority of these illness – the anxiety and depression disorders – reflected motivation by aversion to the fears of separation and … Continue reading →

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Mental Illnesses as Emotional Fossils, I – Overview

Posted on February 15, 2012 by J.V. Wylie

After observing severe mental illness for 20 years, I concluded that they all represented different types of emotional hyperactivity that had escaped from regulation.  Illnesses that included symptoms of lethargy or lack of initiative, such as some forms of depression … Continue reading →

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Monogamy: Ardi and the Ants

Posted on February 1, 2012 by J.V. Wylie

Ardipithecus ramidus, nicknamed Ardi, is arguably the most significant fossil find in the history of paleoanthropology due to its completeness and antiquity – 4.4 M. years, just 1.6 M. years after the last common ancestor with Chimpanzees.  The theoretician of … Continue reading →

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Sigmund Freud Meets Charles Darwin in Prison

Posted on January 30, 2012 by J.V. Wylie

While in my residency, Freudian psychoanalytic theory was still dominant. There are several cornerstones from my training that, through all the vicissitudes of my career, remained as foundations. First and foremost is the validity of the mind as a subject … Continue reading →

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