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Angst : origins of anxiety and depression.
Some twenty percent of us are afflicted with common anxiety and depressive disorders--not just brief bouts of nervousness or sorrow, but painful dysfunctions without obvious benefit. Why do so many people suffer from angst? In this path-breaking volume, engagingly written for the general public, psy...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press, USA,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Lions and tigers and bears are not why : angst is the modern echo of evolved social instincts
- Don't stray far from family, home, or safety : panic anxiety
- Follow the leader of the pack : social anxiety
- A sure and tidy nest (clean, arrange, save, and behave) : obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Go along to get along : atypical depression
- Feeling so useless you could die : melancholic depression
- Consciousness lost and instinct run amok : schizophrenia and psychosis
- Happy in the herd : instinctive herds and primeval ignorance
- Climbing to civilization : the rise of reason and the ascent of angst
- Illness and instinct : consciousness has consequences
- Free to choose : how to balance your reason and instinct.