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My Age Of Anxiety
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2015 As recently as thirty-five years ago anxiety did not exist as a diagnostic category Today it is the most common form of officially classified mental illness Scott Stossel gracefully guides us across the terrain of an affliction that is pervasive yet too often misunderstood Drawing on his own long-standing battle with anxiety Stossel presents an astonishing history at once intimate and authoritative of the efforts to understand the condition from medical cultural philosophical and experiential perspectives He ranges from the earliest medical reports of Galen and Hippocrates through later observations by Robert Burton and Soren Kierkegaard to the investigations by great nineteenth-century scientists such as
Charles Darwin William James and Sigmund Freud as they began to explore its sources and causes to the latest research by neuroscientists and geneticists Stossel reports on famous individuals who struggled with anxiety as well as the afflicted generations of his own family His portrait of anxiety reveals not only the emotion's myriad manifestations and the anguish it produces but also the countless psychotherapies medications and other (often outlandish) treatments that have been developed to counteract it Stossel vividly depicts anxiety's human toll - its crippling impact its devastating power to paralyse - while at the same time exploring how those who suffer from it find ways to manage and control it My Age of Anxiety is learned and empathetic humorous and inspirational offering the
reader great insight into the biological cultural and environmental factors that contribute to the affliction
Charles Darwin William James and Sigmund Freud as they began to explore its sources and causes to the latest research by neuroscientists and geneticists Stossel reports on famous individuals who struggled with anxiety as well as the afflicted generations of his own family His portrait of anxiety reveals not only the emotion's myriad manifestations and the anguish it produces but also the countless psychotherapies medications and other (often outlandish) treatments that have been developed to counteract it Stossel vividly depicts anxiety's human toll - its crippling impact its devastating power to paralyse - while at the same time exploring how those who suffer from it find ways to manage and control it My Age of Anxiety is learned and empathetic humorous and inspirational offering the
reader great insight into the biological cultural and environmental factors that contribute to the affliction
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