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My age of anxiety : fear, hope, dread, and the search for peace of mind / Scott Stossel.

by Stossel, Scott.

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Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.

Stossel, Scott -- Mental health.

Anxiety -- Chemotherapy.

Anxiety disorders -- Epidemiology.

Tranquilizing drugs -- Social aspects.

9780307390608 (pbk., 2015 Vintage Books printing)

9780307269874 (hc.)

0307269876 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Age of anxiety : fear, hope, dread, and the search for peace of mind

viii, 400 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-383) and index.

The nature of anxiety -- What do we talk about when we talk about anxiety -- A rumbling in the belly -- Performance anxiety -- A sack of enzymes -- A brief history of panic, or, how drugs created a new disorder -- Medication and the meaning of anxiety --Separation anxiety -- Warriors & worriers, the genetics of anxiety -- Redemption -- Ages of anxiety, shame, resilience, and the human condition.

"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 Søren 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 on the afflicted generations of his own family. His portrait of anxiety reveals not only the emotion's myriad manifestations and the anguish anxiety 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 paralyze -- while at the same time exploring how those who suffer from it find ways to manage and control it"--Provided by publisher.

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