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My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind de Scott Stossel

My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind

Autor Scott Stossel
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 feb 2015

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A "Washington Post" Notable Book
A "Seattle Times" Best Book of the Year
Drawing on his own longstanding battle with anxiety, Scott Stossel presents a moving and revelatory account of a condition that affects some 40 million Americans. Stossel offers an intimate and authoritative history of efforts by scientists, philosophers, and writers to understand anxiety. We discover the well-known who have struggled with the condition, as well as the afflicted generations of Stossel's own family. Revealing anxiety's myriad manifestations and the anguish it causes, he also surveys the countless psychotherapies, medications, and often outlandish treatments that have been developed to relieve it.
Stossel vividly depicts anxiety s human toll its crippling impact, its devastating power to paralyze. He also explores how individual sufferers including himself have managed and controlled symptoms. By turns erudite and compassionate, amusing and inspirational, "My Age of Anxiety" is the essential account of a pervasive and too often misunderstood affliction."

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ISBN-13: 9780307390608
ISBN-10: 0307390608
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 132 x 201 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Vintage Publishing

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This is 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.

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