My age of anxiety : fear, hope, dread, and the search for peace of mind / Scott Stossel.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 400 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780307269874 (hardcover)
- 0307269876 (hardcover)
- 9780307390608 (pbk.)
- 0307390608 (pbk.)
- 616.85/22 23
- RC531 .S758 2013
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | Sonoma Academy Library | 616.85/22 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 09/07/2015 | 500215 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-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 and worriers: the genetics of anxiety -- Ages of anxiety -- Redemption -- Resilience.
The author recounts his lifelong battle with anxiety, showing the many manifestations of the disorder as well as the countless treatments that have been developed to counteract it, and provides a history of the efforts to understand this common form of mental illness.
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