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

Autor Scott Stossel Michael Goldstrom
en Limba Engleză CD-Audio – 7 ian 2014

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A riveting, revelatory, and moving account of the author's history of anxiety and the history of the efforts by scientists, philosophers, artists, and writers to understand anxiety.

As recently as thirty years ago, anxiety did not exist as a diagnostic category. Today, it is the most common form of officially classified mental illness. Drawing on his lifelong battle with anxiety, Stossel gives us an astonishing history, at once intimate and authoritative, of the efforts to understand anxiety both from the medical and experiential perspective--from the earliest medical accounts (Galen, Hippocrates) through later observers (Robert Burton, Søren Kierkegaard) to the great nineteenth-century scientists who began to explore its sources and causes (William James, Freud). Included are accounts of individuals who struggled with anxiety (Charles Darwin, Samuel Johnson, Walker Percy), as well as afflicted generations of his own family. Stossel's portrait of anxiety reveals not only the complexities and anguish it produces--he also shows the myriad manifestations of anxiety, as well as the countless therapies, medications, and treatments that have been developed to counteract it. And always Stossel returns to anxiety's human toll--to its crippling impact, devastating power to paralyze, and yet at the same time how those who suffer from it find ways to manage and control it. My Age of Anxiety is an account at once humorous and inspirational, learned and empathetic, that exposes the terrain of an affliction that is pervasive and too often misunderstood. His masterly chronicle allows us to see the biological, cultural, and environmental factors that contribute to the affliction.
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ISBN-13: 9780739369944
ISBN-10: 0739369946
Dimensiuni: 129 x 154 x 43 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Ediția:Completă
Editura: Random House Audio Publishing Group

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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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