192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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This work challenges the notion that anxiety and depression amount to a mental illness denoting that something is wrong with the individual sufferer. Instead, anxiety and depression are described as perfectly rational responses to difficulties in the sufferer's world, experienced subjectively by that person. An essential contrast is drawn between objective conceptions of normality (what reality... Read more
Preface to Constable edition , The Myth of Normality , The Reality of Threat , Shyness and the Self as Object , The Domination of Words , The Language of Anxiety , The Magic of the Machine , The Experts , The Possibility of Undeception , The Confrontation of Reality
Biography
David Smail
