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Author Stout, Martha, 1953-

Title The paranoia switch : how terror rewires our brains and reshapes our behavior--and how we can reclaim our courage / Martha Stout.

Imprint New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  616.897 St76p 2007    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xii, 226 p. ; 24 cm.
Note "Sarah Crichton Books."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary On September 11, 2001, the "fear switch" in our brains got flicked. How do we turn it off and reclaim our lives? Years later, we're still scared--and why not? Terrorists could strike at any moment. Our country is at war. The polar caps are melting. Hurricanes loom. We struggle to control our fear so that we can go about our daily lives. Our national consciousness has been torqued by trauma, in the process transforming our behavior, our expectations, our legal system. Psychologist Stout offers a clinical, neuropsychological, and practical examination of what terror and fear politics have done to our brains, and assures us that we can interrupt the cycle of trauma and look forward to a future free of fear only by understanding our own paranoia--and what flips the paranoia switch.--From publisher description.
Contents Homesick world -- How terrorism works -- The day they captured Cat Stevens -- Fearing as one -- The Limbic wars -- The terrorist in the closet -- Fear and the soul of a nation -- Why we cannot see the devil -- Homeland security.
Subject Paranoia.
ISBN 9780374229993 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0374229996 (hardcover : alk. paper)

 
    
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