BookShared
  • MEMBER AREA    
  • My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind

    (By Scott Stossel)

    Book Cover Watermark PDF Icon Read Ebook
    ×
    Size 25 MB (25,084 KB)
    Format PDF
    Downloaded 640 times
    Last checked 12 Hour ago!
    Author Scott Stossel
    “Book Descriptions: 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 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 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.”

    Google Drive Logo DRIVE
    Book 1

    Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

    ★★★★★

    Gregory S. Works

    Book 1

    This Year I Will...: How to Finally Change a Habit, Keep a Resolution, or Make a Dream Come True

    ★★★★★

    M.J. Ryan

    Book 1

    The Leader in You: How to Win Friends, Influence People and Succeed in a Changing World

    ★★★★★

    Dale Carnegie

    Book 1

    Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time

    ★★★★★

    Susan Scott

    Book 1

    Simplify: 7 Guiding Principles to Help Anyone Declutter Their Home and Life

    ★★★★★

    Joshua Becker

    Book 1

    The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

    ★★★★★

    Andrew Solomon

    Book 1

    The Anxiety Toolkit: Strategies for Fine-Tuning Your Mind and Moving Past Your Stuck Points

    ★★★★★

    Alice Boyes

    Book 1

    The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

    ★★★★★

    Sogyal Rinpoche

    Book 1

    My Morning Routine: How Successful People Start Every Day Inspired

    ★★★★★

    Benjamin Spall

    Book 1

    Mind Hacking: How to Change Your Mind for Good in 21 Days

    ★★★★★

    John Hargrave

    Book 1

    Bonds That Make Us Free: Healing Our Relationship, Coming to Ourselves

    ★★★★★

    C. Terry Warner