Description: Illusions and Reality : The Meaning of Anxiety, Paperback by Smail, David, ISBN 1782202854, ISBN-13 9781782202851, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK 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 ought to be as per commercial and other objectifying sources) and the reality of the individual's subjective experience of the world (abuse, unemployment, and so on). Chapters include tackling the myth of normality; examining shyness; and analysing the way in which assumptions behind the use of language can foster anxiety and depression. Th's primary purpose is to explain the meaning of anxiety as experienced by the sufferer. These insights also lead to a view, by way of secondary purpose, that the role of the therapist is not in 'curing' the individual, but rather to negotiate demystification and to provide insight into the effects of the problems in the sufferer's world, based on the sufferer and the therapist's shared subjective understanding.
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Book Title: Illusions and Reality : The Meaning of Anxiety
Subject Area: Clinical Psychology
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Width: 152 mm
Author: David Smail
Publication Name: Illusion and Reality: the Meaning of Anxiety
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Taylor & Francis LTD
Publication Year: 2015
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 318 g
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
