Contribute YOUR story! | Adam Hunt | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #55

Stories matter. Sharing insights into our personal experiences can help shift attitudes, particularly when it comes to mental health and disorder. This episode, Adam asks the audience to contribute their stories to help the Foundation for Evolution and Mental Health to impress the importance of the evolutionary psychiatry on the world!

If you have a story, whatever it may be, whether you are a patient, a parent, or a clinician, share it with us! Use the form on the Foundation website to upload a short video: https://www.femh.uk/activities/share-your-story-how-has-evolutionary-thinking-changed-how-you-see-mental-health

(or go to www.femh.uk 'Activities' page and find it there)

Dr Adam Hunt is a researcher in the emerging field of evolutionary psychiatry at the Leverhulme Center for Human Evolutionary Studies at the University of Cambridge. Since 2019 he has served on the executive committee of the Evolutionary Psychiatry Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He also sits on the board of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health. He is the founding chair of the Foundation for Evolution and Mental Health. His PhD thesis entitled ‘Evolving Evolutionary Psychiatry and Explaining Neurodiversity’ received Summa Cumme Laude from the University of Zurich in spring 2024.He has published multiple academic articles in journals such as Biological Reviews, Autism Research and Evolutionary Human Sciences on a range of topics, including how evolutionary psychiatry supports the concept of neurodiversity and how evolutionary theory explains individual differences in cognition and dissolves the distinction between psychopathology and personality. He has lectured and trained psychiatrists and psychotherapists in evolutionary psychiatry.

This podcast is financially supported by the Human Ecology Group of the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich.