- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > 英文書
- > Health / Fitness
Full Description
Provides a broad and entertaining overview of fear from evolution, to modern day challenges, and how clinicians treat trauma, anxiety, and PTSD today.
About a third of the world population suffers from an anxiety disorder, and half of Americans have had at least one traumatic experience like rape, assault, shooting, or natural disasters. The news is full of stories about our dying planet, civil unrest, political fighting, and other anxiety-inducing subjects. On social media, digital tribes have lined up against each other and people worry they may get "canceled" for any number of perceived offenses. Fear and anxiety are with us everywhere we go.
Fear is one of the most deeply rooted biological mechanisms that has evolved over hundreds of millions of years in the brains and bodies of animals and humans with one key mission: to increase our chance of survival. Fear is deeply woven into our biology, culture, politics, and day to day life. We sometimes don't even know what we are afraid of. What we know for sure is that we are afraid too often.
But why are we so scared? How does fear work in our brains? Why does our body react the way it does when we are scared? What is the evolutionary purpose of fear? Why do we enjoy watching horror movies? How does the brain of a brave person work differently than others? How do we learn to be afraid, and how can we unlearn? Is fear good or bad for creativity? Can we use fear to our advantage? How is fear used to manipulate us?
In this book, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist answers these questions. It is a comprehensive review of fear and anxiety in most tangible aspects of the modern life. Arash Javanbakht explores how our childhood experiences define the role fear plays in us as adults, how fear may or may not affect our genes, what excessive fear and anxiety can do to our brains and bodies, and the role of fear in the wake of trauma. Readers will come away with a better understanding of fear and how we can tamp its negative effects, how we can treat it medically if necessary, and how we can protect ourselves from fear's most negative consequences.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Origin of Fear: Evolved to be Scared
Chapter 2: Wired to be Wired: Fear in the Brain
Chapter 3: Why Is My Heart Pounding? Fear in the Body
Chapter 4: How We Learn Fear, and How We Unlearn It
Chapter 5: Haunt My Nerves: Why We Love to be Scared
Chapter 6: Courage Is Not the Absence of Fear
Chapter 7: I'm Afraid, So I'm Angry: Fear and Aggression
Chapter 8: Diseases of Fear and Anxiety
Chapter 9: Haunting Memories: Trauma and PTSD
Chapter 10: Taming the Beast: How Clinicians Treat
Fear and Anxiety
Chapter 11: Riding the Beast: How to Use Fear to
Our Advantage
Chapter 12: Fear and Meaning: Defining It before It
Defines Us
Chapter 13: Fear and Creativity: Monsters that We
Forge, and Monsters that Forge Us
Chapter 14: Fear that Rules Us: Politics of Fear
Chapter 15: The Business of Fear
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
-
- 電子書籍
- トリアージX コミックアンソロジー ト…
-
- 電子書籍
- ゴルゴ13（54）
