My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind

A Washington Post Notable Book
A Seattle Times Best Book of the Year

Drawing on his own longstanding battle with anxiety, Scott Stossel presents a moving and revelatory account of a condition that affects some 40 million Americans. Stossel offers an intimate and authoritative history of efforts by scientists, philosophers, and writers to understand anxiety. We discover the well-known who have struggled with the condition, as well as the afflicted generations of Stossel's own family. Revealing anxiety's myriad manifestations and the anguish it causes, he also surveys the countless psychotherapies, medications, and often outlandish treatments that have been developed to relieve it.
Stossel vividly depicts anxiety's human toll--its crippling impact, its devastating power to paralyze. He also explores how individual sufferers--including himself--have managed and controlled symptoms. By turns erudite and compassionate, amusing and inspirational, My Age of Anxiety is the essential account of a pervasive and too often misunderstood affliction.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02/03/2015
ISBN: 9780307390608
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.20d

Review Citations: People Weekly 03/02/2015 pg. 42
New York Times Book Review 03/08/2015 pg. 32