A conceptual and therapeutic analysis of fear. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sergio Starkstein.
• Authors: Starkstein, Sergio E
• Contents: Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: The Epicurean concept of fear and the road to ataraxiaChapter 3: Roman fears: Cicero's and Seneca's remediesChapter 4: Montaigne's Essay: a humanistic approach to fearChapter 5: Thomas Hobbes and fear: the political use of a human emotionChapter 6: Descartes and the mechanization of fearChapter 7: James's fears and Wittgenstein's therapyChapter 8: Sigmund Freud and the psychoanalytical concept of fear and anxietyChapter 9: The medicalization and social construction of fear in the age of anxietyChapter 10: Conclusion.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 152.46; Fear -- History; Fear -- Philosophy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319783499
• Related ISBNs: 9783319783482
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