Download PDF My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind Writen By Scott Stossel

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

By : Scott Stossel

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A riveting, revelatory, and moving account of the author?s struggles with anxiety, and of the history of efforts by scientists, philosophers, and writers to understand the 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 S?ren Kierkegaard, to the investigations by great nineteenth-century scientists, such as Charles Darwin, William James, and Sigmund Freud, as they began to explore its

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Author : Scott Stossel

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Publisher : Random House Audio

Language : eng

ISBN-10 : B00HFUWAQK

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