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A Brief History of Anxiety?Yours and Mine | 
 enlarge | Author: Patricia Pearson
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
ISBN: 1596915951
Dewey Decimal Number: 158
EAN: 9781596915954
ASIN: 1596915951
Publication Date: March 3, 2009 (In 102 Days)
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“Highly amusing…[Pearson] examine[s] modern civilization and its discontents, as well as her own miseries…thoughtfully and incisively. Major points for wit and flair.”—New York Times The millions of Americans who silently cope with anxiety at last have a witty, articulate champion.
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 Insightful and engaging October 25, 2008
I flopped onto the couch with this book and didn't emerge until I'd finished it. As always with Pearson's engaging prose style, it was a pleasure to read. But more, I emerged with new views of anxiety - both tools to deal with my own anxiety and to better understand its source. The blend of anecdote with social research makes for a fascinating read.
Helpful and Insightful October 14, 2008
Pearson is an author who writes how she thinks. That is, her sentence structure and narrative techniques can get a little confusing because she's literally writing in the way that her anxiety-filled mind operates. Her writing style has almost more to say about her anxiety than her words. Because of that you'll either appreciate or resent the book.
Ultimately I think what she has to say about WHY Americans are so anxious is very insightful. And her sense of humor is present throughout. The middle gets a little muddled (that's where the book actually does become a history of anxiety as opposed to quirky stories and self-reflections), but it picks back up. I enjoyed it thoroughly and recommend it to anyone who gets lost in their anxiety from time to time.
 It was ok July 18, 2008
I really liked that this book covered many aspects of anxiety, and I know that "History" was in the title, but I was hoping that the author would go a little into how she deals with her own anxiety. I guess I should have read the reviews better and got a better understanding of what the book was exactly about before I purchased it.
Mixed bag June 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book started out with a bang, grabbed my attention, thought we were "kindred spirits". Then it fizzled. She suggests many things about our culture/society, why we are so anxious and what can help anxiety (meaning, community) but never comes right out and says what she thinks (except about medication). I liked hearing about her personal struggles with anxiety, and I found the first two chapters the best. I think she lost track of her purpose in writing the book at different times and I lost interest. Her negative views on medication are justified AND medication has also helped many people with mental illness.
Not Great May 3, 2008
About: Pearson describes her struggle with bouts of anxiety and its treatment as well as provides a history of anxiety (and its treatments).
Pros: Short, not poorly written. Sources cited
Cons: Nothing Earth-shattering. Pearson provides some poor examples; i.e. Melinda Doolittle from American Idol when discussing personality, and who's going to remember her in a few years' time? Leading me to think this book will not survive the test of the ages. Discusses a poem by Auden and doesn't share the text. While sources are cited, they are solely in the back matter in a "sentence...source" format, where citation-sequence (superscript numbers) would have been easier to look up what sources she cites and where.
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