Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety

Joseph Ledoux

ISBN 10: 0143109049 / ISBN 13: 9780143109044

Published by Penguin Random House Sea, 2016

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Mechanische Beschädigung. Exploring the intricate relationship between mind and brain, the book provides a comprehensive examination of anxiety, delving into its historical, philosophical, and scientific dimensions. The author, a leading expert, discusses unconscious defense mechanisms and the conscious experience of anxiety, all while incorporating engaging personal anecdotes that create an intimate conversational tone. This in-depth guide offers valuable insights into the nature of this prevalent emotional state. Seller Inventory # 0ae4e852-41aa-4601-9e13-5be0c5fe05e8

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Title: Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and ...

Publisher: Penguin Random House Sea

Publication Date: 2016

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Poor

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Synopsis:

“A rigorous, in-depth guide to the history, philosophy, and scientific exploration of this widespread emotional state . . . [LeDoux] offers a magisterial review of the role of mind and brain in the generation of unconscious defense responses and consciously expressed anxiety. . . . [His] charming personal asides give an impression of having a conversation with a world expert.” —Nature
 
A comprehensive and accessible exploration of anxiety, from a leading neuroscientist and the author of Synaptic Self

Collectively, anxiety disorders are our most prevalent psychiatric problem, affecting about forty million adults in the United States. In Anxious, Joseph LeDoux, whose NYU lab has been at the forefront of research efforts to understand and treat fear and anxiety, explains the range of these disorders, their origins, and discoveries that can restore sufferers to normalcy.
 
LeDoux’s groundbreaking premise is that we’ve been thinking about fear and anxiety in the wrong way. These are not innate states waiting to be unleashed from the brain, but experiences that we assemble cognitively. Treatment of these problems must address both their conscious manifestations and underlying non-conscious processes. While knowledge about how the brain works will help us discover new drugs, LeDoux argues that the greatest breakthroughs may come from using brain research to help reshape psychotherapy.
 
A major work on one of our most pressing mental health issues, Anxious explains the science behind fear and anxiety disorders.
 
Praise for Anxious:

“[Anxious] helps to explain and prevent the kinds of debilitating anxieties all of us face in this increasingly stressful world.” —Daniel J. Levitin, author of The Organized Mind and This Is Your Brain on Music
 
“A careful tour through the current neuroscience of fear and anxiety . . . [Anxious] will reward the informed reader.” —The Wall Street Journal
 
“An extraordinarily ambitious, provocative, challenging, and important book. Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience (including work in his own laboratory), LeDoux provides explanations of the origins, nature, and impact of fear and anxiety disorders.” —Psychology Today

About the Author:

Joseph LeDoux is the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science at New York University, where he is a member of the Center for Neural Science and the Department of Psychology. He directs the Emotional Brain Institute at New York University and at the Nathan Kline Institute, and is the author of Synaptic Self and The Emotional Brain. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, LeDoux lives in Brooklyn, New York.