Comment by medvezhenok

Yup, this problem is why I think all therapists should ideally know behavioral genetics and evolutionary psychology (there is at least a plausibly objective measure there which is dissonance between the ancestral environment in which the brain developed and the modern day environment. And at least some amount of psychological problems can be explained by it).

I am a fan of the « Beat Your Genes » podcast, and while some of the prescriptions can be a bit heavy handed, most feel intuitively right. It’s approaching human problems as intelligent mammal problems, as opposed to something in a category of its own.