9780374229993-0374229996-The Paranoia Switch: How Terror Rewires Our Brains and Reshapes Our Behavior--and How We Can Reclaim Our Courage

The Paranoia Switch: How Terror Rewires Our Brains and Reshapes Our Behavior--and How We Can Reclaim Our Courage

ISBN-13: 9780374229993
ISBN-10: 0374229996
Edition: 1
Author: Martha Stout
Publication date: 2007
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover 240 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780374229993
ISBN-10: 0374229996
Edition: 1
Author: Martha Stout
Publication date: 2007
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover 240 pages

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The Paranoia Switch: How Terror Rewires Our Brains and Reshapes Our Behavior--and How We Can Reclaim Our Courage (ISBN-13: 9780374229993 and ISBN-10: 0374229996), written by authors Martha Stout, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2007. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other Applied Psychology (Psychology & Counseling, Applied Psychology, Psychology, General, Social Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Paranoia Switch: How Terror Rewires Our Brains and Reshapes Our Behavior--and How We Can Reclaim Our Courage (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Applied Psychology books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.32.

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On September 11, 2001, the "Fear Switch" in our brains got flicked. How do we turn it off and reclaim our lives? Five years after September 11, 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. In The Myth of Sanity, Martha Stout, who until recently taught at the Harvard Medical School, analyzed how we cope with personal trauma. In her national bestseller The Sociopath Next Door, she showed how to avoid suffering psychological damage at the hands of others. Now, in The Paranoia Switch, she offers a groundbreaking clinical, neuropsychological, and practical examination of what terror and fear politics have done to our minds, and to the very biology of our brains. In this timely and essential book, Stout 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.
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