Future tense : why anxiety is good for you (even though it feels bad)
Title:
Future tense : why anxiety is good for you (even though it feels bad)
Author:
Dennis-Tiwary, Tracy, author.
ISBN:
9780063062108
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
ix, 237 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
Why we need anxiety. 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? -- How to rescue anxiety. Uncertainty -- Creativity -- Kids are not fragile -- Being anxious in the right way.
Abstract:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
