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A Conceptual and Therapeutic Analysis of Fear


A Conceptual and Therapeutic Analysis of Fear



von: Sergio Starkstein

106,99 €

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 17.04.2018
ISBN/EAN: 9783319783499
Sprache: englisch

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<p></p><p>There is an important gap in the philosophical literature concerning the concept of fear and its remedies, and this book has been designed to examine different concepts of fear that inform its therapy. Structured as a historical-philosophical investigation of the concept of fear, this book is not a purely historical analysis of fear but also provides a broad brushwork rendition of the main concepts of fear as presented by selected philosophers and thinkers, and how they have approached its therapy.</p><br><p></p>
<div>Chapter 1: Introduction&nbsp;</div><div>Chapter 2: The Epicurean concept of fear and the road to ataraxia&nbsp;</div><div>Chapter 3: Roman fears: Cicero’s and Seneca’s remedies&nbsp;</div><div>Chapter 4: Montaigne’s Essay: a humanistic approach to fear&nbsp;</div><div>Chapter 5: Thomas Hobbes and fear: the political use of a human emotion&nbsp;</div><div>Chapter 6: Descartes and the mechanization of fear&nbsp;</div>Chapter 7: James’s fears and Wittgenstein’s therapy&nbsp;<div>Chapter 8: Sigmund Freud and the psychoanalytical concept of fear and anxiety&nbsp;</div><div>Chapter 9: The medicalization and social construction of fear in the age of anxiety&nbsp;</div><div>Chapter 10: Conclusion&nbsp;</div><div><br></div>
<div><p>Sergio Starkstein<b> </b>is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Western Australia. He obtained PhDs in neuropsychiatry (University of Buenos Aires) and philosophy (Murdoch University), and was Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University.</p></div>
There is an important gap in the philosophical literature concerning the concept of fear and its remedies, and this book has been designed to examine different concepts of fear that inform its therapy. Structured as a historical-philosophical investigation of the concept of fear, this book is not a purely historical analysis of fear but also provides a broad brushwork rendition of the main concepts of fear as presented by selected philosophers and thinkers, and how they have approached its therapy.<p></p>
<p>Discusses a variety of remedies to fear from those proposed by the Hellenistic philosophers to those of contemporary times</p><p>Synthesises primary material into a dynamic and critical history that points to differences, insights, oversights, and continuities in perspectives on fear</p><p>Relates how therapeutic demands have influenced the ways that fear is understood</p>

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