Anxious, Joseph LeDoux
Anxious, Joseph LeDoux
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Anxious
Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety

Author: Joseph LeDoux

Narrator: Jonathan Davis

Unabridged: 13 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/14/2015


Synopsis

A comprehensive and accessible exploration of anxiety, from a leading neuroscientist and the author of Synaptic Self

Collectively, anxiety disorders are our most prevalent psychiatric problem, affecting about forty million adults in the United States. In Anxious, Joseph LeDoux, whose NYU lab has been at the forefront of research efforts to understand and treat fear and anxiety, explains the range of these disorders, their origins, and discoveries that can restore sufferers to normalcy.

LeDoux’s groundbreaking premise is that we’ve been thinking about fear and anxiety in the wrong way. These are not innate states waiting to be unleashed from the brain, but experiences that we assemble cognitively. Treatment of these problems must address both their conscious manifestations and underlying non-conscious processes. While knowledge about how the brain works will help us discover new drugs, LeDoux argues that the greatest breakthroughs may come from using brain research to help reshape psychotherapy.

A major work on one of our most pressing mental health issues, Anxious explains the science behind fear and anxiety disorders.

“A rigorous, in-depth guide to the history, philosophy, and scientific exploration of this widespread emotional state … [LeDoux] offers a magisterial review of the role of mind and brain in the generation of unconscious defense responses and consciously expressed anxiety. … [His] charming personal asides give an impression of having a conversation with a world expert.”—Nature

About Joseph Ledoux

Joseph LeDoux is the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science in the Center for Neural Science at New York University. He has been awarded both a Merit Award and a Research Scientist Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health, as well as grants from the National Science Foundation and the American Heart Association. He lives in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Troy

You could look at this book's title two ways. You could say that it is inaptly named, as over 3/5ths of the book don't even deal with the topic directly, and instead provide the needed background for you to understand the final fifth of the book, which does treat on the topic. Or, conversely, you co......more

Goodreads review by Marcelo

This is one of the best books I have ever read. I remember being very excited about it when I began reading it but also to be very surprised at the low rating it had here on Goodreads. Reading people's comments and now having read the book myself have helped me to understand why it was, in myo opini......more

I certainly agree with his key point - that the use of the word "fear" to describe both the non-conscious defence systems in the brain as well as the conscious emotion has led to a bit of a mess. You can basically get the whole point of the book in this article: [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Bernie

This book examines the neuroscience of anxiety, though psychology also makes a prominent appearance in the discussion – particularly toward the end of the book. It’s written by one of the top researchers in the field emotional neuroscience, though LeDoux discusses the work of other labs, comparing a......more