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Ian Jobling's avatar

That looks like it was really interesting! For future conferences, you might consider inviting C.A. Soper, who has a radical new theory of mental illness that I just wrote about. He argues that mental illnesses aren’t illnesses at all but evolutionary adaptations designed to keep us from killing ourselves. https://open.substack.com/pub/eclecticinquiries/p/what-if-mental-illnesses-arent-illnesses?r=4952v2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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Evolution and Psychiatry's avatar

Hi Ian, thanks for your comment and link to your post - I'll ensure to share it widely.

Cas is well known to us in the field - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2GwhgyBybs

He also published a chapter in the recent Cambridge University Press Textbook on Evolutionary Psychiatry that you may find of interest: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/evolutionary-psychiatry/on-the-randomness-of-suicide/17353786992D8A3F0A7EEC7850F44F96

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Ian Jobling's avatar

Great! I will check out your book!

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Michael's avatar

Wonderful! Are you planning of putting any of these talks on your YouTube channel? Thank you Gurjot!

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Evolution and Psychiatry's avatar

Hi Michael, yes the talks were recorded and we plan to get these on one of the Youtube channels - I'll be sure to send out a note when they're online!

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Michael's avatar

Thank you!

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