好的焦虑 – My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind by Scott Stossel

焦虑让我们刺痛，也让我们行动。

《好的焦虑》作者斯科特·施托塞尔与焦虑共处了35年。在《好的焦虑》这本书中，他生动记述了自己从小到大的焦虑经历，从医学、文化、哲学、社会等多个角度讲述焦虑是如何形成的，焦虑与智慧、创造力和原创性的关联。同时，他还细数了史上诸多名人的焦虑，那些科学家们、哲学家们、艺术家们、作家们是怎样对抗焦虑的。作者用幽默感人的笔触，坦诚而无畏的自我袒露，告诉我们，焦虑可以成为我们正向转变的动力， 如果我们能够正确地驾驭自己的焦虑气质，就可以变得更加优秀。

A riveting, revelatory, and moving account of the author’s struggles with anxiety, and of the history of efforts by scientists, philosophers, and writers to understand the condition

As recently as thirty-five years ago, anxiety did not exist as a diagnostic category. Today, it is the most common form of officially classified mental illness. Scott Stossel gracefully guides us across the terrain of an affliction that is pervasive yet too often misunderstood.

Drawing on his own long-standing battle with anxiety, Stossel presents an astonishing history, at once intimate and authoritative, of the efforts to understand the condition from medical, cultural, philosophical, and experiential perspectives. He ranges from the earliest medical reports of Galen and Hippocrates, through later observations by Robert Burton and Søren Kierkegaard, to the investigations by great nineteenth-century scientists, such as Charles Darwin, William James, and Sigmund Freud, as they began to explore its sources and causes, to the latest research by neuroscientists and geneticists. Stossel reports on famous individuals who struggled with anxiety, as well as on the afflicted generations of his own family. His portrait of anxiety reveals not only the emotion’s myriad manifestations and the anguish anxiety produces but also the countless psychotherapies, medications, and other (often outlandish) treatments that have been developed to counteract it. Stossel vividly depicts anxiety’s human toll—its crippling impact, its devastating power to paralyze—while at the same time exploring how those who suffer from it find ways to manage and control it.

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