Anxious : using the brain to understand and treat fear and anxiety / Joseph LeDoux.
2015
RC531 .L344 2015 (Mapit)
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Title
Anxious : using the brain to understand and treat fear and anxiety / Joseph LeDoux.
Author
LeDoux, Joseph E., author.
ISBN
9780670015337 (hardcover)
0670015334 (hardcover)
0670015334 (hardcover)
Published
New York, New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Description
xiv, 466 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number
RC531 .L344 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
616.85/22
Summary
"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 our most pressing mental health issue, Anxious explains the science behind fear and anxiety disorders"--provided from Amazon.com.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
The tangled web of anxiety and fear
Rethinking the emotional brain
Life is dangerous
The defensive brain
Have we inherited emotional states of mind from our animal ancestors?
Let's get physical : the consciousness problem
It's personal : how memory affects consciousness
Feeling it : emotional consciousness
Forty million anxious brains
Changing the anxious brain
Therapy : lessons from the laboratory.
Rethinking the emotional brain
Life is dangerous
The defensive brain
Have we inherited emotional states of mind from our animal ancestors?
Let's get physical : the consciousness problem
It's personal : how memory affects consciousness
Feeling it : emotional consciousness
Forty million anxious brains
Changing the anxious brain
Therapy : lessons from the laboratory.