A Conceptual and Therapeutic Analysis of Fear

ISBN-13: 9783319783482 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 299 str.

Sergio Eduardo Starkstein

Opis

There is an important gap in the philosophical literature concerning the concept of fear and its remedies, and this book has been designed to examine different concepts of fear that inform its therapy.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction 

Chapter 2: The Epicurean concept of fear and the road to ataraxia 

Chapter 3: Roman fears: Cicero’s and Seneca’s remedies 

Chapter 4: Montaigne’s Essay: a humanistic approach to fear 

Chapter 5: Thomas Hobbes and fear: the political use of a human emotion 

Chapter 6: Descartes and the mechanization of fear 

Chapter 7: James’s fears and Wittgenstein’s therapy 

Chapter 8: Sigmund Freud and the psychoanalytical concept of fear and anxiety 

Chapter 9: The medicalization and social construction of fear in the age of anxiety 

Chapter 10: Conclusion 

O autorze

Sergio Starkstein is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Western Australia. He obtained PhDs in neuropsychiatry (University of Buenos Aires) and philosophy (Murdoch University), and was Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University.

Blurb

There is an important gap in the philosophical literature concerning the concept of fear and its remedies, and this book has been designed to examine different concepts of fear that inform its therapy. Structured as a historical-philosophical investigation of the concept of fear, this book is not a purely historical analysis of fear but also provides a broad brushwork rendition of the main concepts of fear as presented by selected philosophers and thinkers, and how they have approached its therapy.