Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety Audiobook (Free)

A thorough and accessible exploration of anxiety, from a leading neuroscientist and the writer of Synaptic Self Collectively, anxiety disorders are our most prevalent psychiatric issue, affecting about forty million adults in the United States. In Anxious, Joseph LeDoux, whose NYU lab has been on the forefront of research efforts to comprehend and treat fear and anxiety, explains the range of the disorders, their origins, and discoveries that can restore sufferers to normalcy. LeDoux’s groundbreaking premise is that we’ve been considering fear and anxiety in the wrong manner. These are not really innate states waiting around to be unleashed from the mind, but experiences that people assemble cognitively. Treatment of these problems must address both their conscious manifestations and root nonconscious processes. While understanding of how the mind works will help us discover brand-new medications, LeDoux argues that the greatest breakthroughs may come from using human brain analysis to help reshape psychotherapy. A major work on our most pressing mental health issue, Anxious explains the science behind anxiety and stress disorders.