我们如何成长：理解青春期 How We Grow Up

基本信息

by Matt Richtel (Author)

Format:Hardback 336 pages

Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Imprint:HarperCollins

ISBN:9780063282063

Published:28 Aug 2025

Weight:449g

Dimensions:229 x 152 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

“这本书应该放在每个家长的床边。”——《柯克斯书评》普利策奖得主、科学记者马特·里希特尔极大地扩展了他屡获殊荣的《纽约时报》系列文章，该系列文章探讨当代青少年心理健康危机，并对青少年时期进行了开创性的调查。青少年时期是人生中一个关键的阶段，正经历着深刻而又常常令人困惑的转变。从童年到成年的过渡是一个自然的、进化磨练出的循环，如今正面临着彻底的变化和挑战。青少年的大脑，经过亿万年的进化，为适应这一转变而精心打造，如今却面临着现代社会的巨大压力，以至于它经常超出了不断发展的心智的承受能力。

问题出现之际，正值青少年经历第二个关键转变：青春期提前之际，屏幕信息轰炸着大脑。结果，超强的环境与仍在发育的大脑之间出现了神经学上的不匹配，这可能导致焦虑、抑郁和其他心理健康问题。这是一场危机，是现代生活的一部分，但只有通过对青少年时期生物学本身的广泛而扎实的视角才能真正理解。

通过这个视角，Richtel 向我们展示了青少年如何理解自己，以及父母和教育工作者如何更好地帮助他们。几十年来，青少年向成年的过渡一直被定义为引发青春期开始的激素变化。但 Richtel 带领我们进入了科学界如今对这一过程的理解：大脑。

越来越多的研究着眼于正在萌芽的成人神经生物学，以难以言喻的清晰度解释了“社交大脑”的出现，即对同伴联系的渴望，以及随之而来的行为如何为经济和社会生存铺平道路。这个时期包含着挑战——因为青少年的大脑从出生起就被设定为敢于冒险、探索自我和周围环境——这样他们才能在离开童年的孤立关爱后茁壮成长。里希特尔深入研究新研究，并讲述扣人心弦的个人故事，为代际变革中紧迫的问题提供了通俗易懂、科学依据的答案。

如何解释青少年的行为、冒险行为、追求回报以及持续不断的心理健康危机？青春期如何塑造物种的未来？青春期本身的本质是什么？

"Essential reading." — Dr. Vivek Murthy"This book should be at the bedside of every parent." — Kirkus ReviewsGreatly expanding his award-winning New York Times series on the contemporary teen mental-health crisis, Pulitzer Prize–winning science reporter Matt Richtel delivers a groundbreaking investigation into adolescence, the pivotal life stage undergoing profound—and often confounding—transformation. The transition from childhood to adulthood is a natural, evolution-honed cycle that now faces radical change and challenge. The adolescent brain, sculpted for this transition over eons of evolution, confronts a modern world that creates so much social pressure as to regularly exceed the capacities of the evolving mind.

The problem comes as a bombardment of screen-based information pelts the brain just as adolescence is undergoing a second key change: puberty is hitting earlier. The result is a neurological mismatch between an ultra-potent environment and a still-maturing brain that can lead to anxiety, depression, and other mental health challenges. It is a crisis that is part of modern life but can only be truly grasped through a broad, grounded lens of the biology of adolescence itself.

Through this lens, Richtel shows us how adolescents can understand themselves, and parents and educators can better help. For decades, this transition to adulthood has been defined by hormonal shifts that trigger the onset of puberty. But Richtel takes us where science now understands so much of the action is: the brain.

A growing body of research that looks for the first time into budding adult neurobiology explains with untold clarity the emergence of the “social brain,” a craving for peer connection, and how the behaviors that follow pave the way for economic and social survival. This period necessarily involves testing—as the adolescent brain is programmed from birth to take risks and explore themselves and their environment—so that they may be able to thrive as they leave the insulated care of childhood. Richtel, diving deeply into new research and gripping personal stories, offers accessible, scientifically grounded answers to the most pressing questions about generational change.

What explains adolescent behaviors, risk-taking, reward-seeking, and the ongoing mental health crisis? How does adolescence shape the future of the species? What is the nature of adolescence itself?

作者简介

马特·里希特尔自2000年起担任《纽约时报》记者。他凭借一系列揭露分心驾驶普遍存在的风险及其根源、推动广泛改革的报道，荣获2010年普利策国家报道奖。他是《致命的徘徊》一书的作者，《纽约时报书评》称其“值得在美国高中课程中与《快餐帝国》和《杀死一只知更鸟》并驾齐驱”；该书还被《旧金山纪事报》、《柯克斯评论》和《温尼伯自由报》评为“年度图书”。他曾出现在美国国家公共电台（NPR）的《新鲜空气》节目、PBS新闻一小时节目以及其他主流媒体上。他现居加利福尼亚州旧金山。

Matt Richtel has been a reporter at the New York Times since 2000. He won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series that exposed the pervasive risks of distracted driving and its root causes, prompting widespread reform. He is the author of A Deadly Wandering, which the New York Times Book Review declared, “deserves a spot next to Fast Food Nation and To Kill a Mockingbird in America’s high school curriculum”; it was named a “best book of the year” by the San Francisco Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor, Kirkus Reviews, and Winnipeg Free Press. He has appeared on NPR’s Fresh Air, PBS Newshour, and other major media outlets. He lives in San Francisco, California.