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Future tense : why anxiety is good for you (even though it feels bad)

Call Number

  • 152.46 D4119 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022]

Physical Description

ix, 237 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

"A psychologist confronts our pervasive misunderstanding of anxiety and presents a new framework for reimagining and reclaiming the confounding emotion as the advantage it evolved to be"--

Contents

  • What anxiety is (and isn't)
  • Why anxiety exists
  • Future tense: choose your own adventure
  • How we were misled about anxiety. The anxiety-as-disease story
  • Comfortably numb
  • Blame the machines?
  • Uncertainty
  • Creativity
  • Kids are not fragile
  • Being anxious in the right way.

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