A Conceptual and Therapeutic Analysis of Fear - Sergio Starkstein

A Conceptual and Therapeutic Analysis of Fear

Buch | Softcover
XIV, 299 Seiten
2018 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-08683-1 (ISBN)
117,69 inkl. MwSt

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.


Sergio Starkstein 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.

1.Introduction.- 2.The Epicurean concept of fear and the road to ataraxia.- 3.Roman fears.- 4.Montaigne's Essays.- 5. Thomas Hobbes and fear.- 6. Descartes and the mechanization of fear.- 7. James's fears and Wittgenstein's therapy.- 8. Sigmund Freud and the psychoanalytical concept of fear.- 9. The medicalization and social construction of fear in the age of anxiety.- 10. Conclusions.- Index.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo XIV, 299 p. 3 illus.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 415 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Medizinethik
Schlagworte Anxiety • Neuroscience • Philosophy of Emotions • Psychoanalysis • Sociology
ISBN-10 3-030-08683-6 / 3030086836
ISBN-13 978-3-030-08683-1 / 9783030086831
Zustand Neuware
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