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A Washington Post Notable BookA Seattle Times Best Book of the YearDrawing on his own longstanding battle with anxiety, Scott Stossel presents a moving and revelatory account of a condition that affects some 40 million Americans. Stossel offers an intimate and authoritative history of efforts by scientists, philosophers, and writers to understand anxiety. We discover the well-known who have struggled with the condition, as well as the afflicted generations of Stossel's own family. Revealing anxiety's myriad manifestations and the anguish it causes, he also surveys the countless psychotherapies, medications, and often outlandish treatments that have been developed to relieve it. Stossel vividly depicts anxiety's human toll - its crippling impact, its devastating power to paralyze.



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Scott Stossel

Scott Stossel is the editor of The Atlantic magazine. He is the author of MY AGE OF ANXIETY: FEAR, HOPE, DREAD, AND THE SEARCH FOR PEACE OF MIND and SARGE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SARGENT SHRIVER. His essays and articles have appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The Daily Beast, The American Prospect, and many other publications, and his work has been anthologized in THE BEST AMERICAN POLITICAL WRITING and in various college textbooks. After spending most of his life in the Boston area, he currently lives in Washington, DC, with his wife and two children.



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