A Conceptual and Therapeutic Analysis of Fear

• Main Author: Starkstein, Sergio (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Philosophy of mind.; Medicine-Philosophy.; Philosophy of Mind.; Philosophy of Medicine.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 1.Introduction
• 2.The Epicurean concept of fear and the road to ataraxia
• 3.Roman fears
• 4.Montaigne's Essays
• 5. Thomas Hobbes and fear
• 6. Descartes and the mechanization of fear
• 7. James's fears and Wittgenstein's therapy
• 8. Sigmund Freud and the psychoanalytical concept of fear
• 9. The medicalization and social construction of fear in the age of anxiety
• 10. Conclusions
• Index.