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

Name: My Age of Anxiety Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind
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ISBN: 9780307269874

ISBN-10: 0307269876

ISBN-13: 9780307269874

Edition: 2013

Authors: Scott Stossel

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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…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/7/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Scott Stossel is the editor of The Atlantic. He is the author of Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver and My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind.