Anxiety is Really Strange
Graphic medicine
Steve Haines author Sophie Standing illustrator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published:18th Jan '18
Should be back in stock very soon
This engaging graphic book, Anxiety is Really Strange, offers insights into understanding and managing anxiety through humor and science.
In Anxiety is Really Strange, the complexities of anxiety are explored through an engaging graphic format that combines humor and science. This original work delves into the origins of anxiety, its implications for the body, and offers insights on transforming it into a positive force. The illustrations serve to simplify the often overwhelming nature of anxiety, making it accessible and relatable for readers of all backgrounds.
The book poses essential questions about the nature of fear and excitement, encouraging readers to differentiate between the two. It examines how emotions are generated by the interplay of the mind and body, and discusses the potential benefits of anxiety when understood and managed properly. Through a thorough analysis, Anxiety is Really Strange reveals the peculiarities of anxiety while also providing practical strategies to mitigate its effects.
By explaining how our nervous system's protective mechanisms can sometimes lead to heightened anxiety, the book aims to reduce the fear associated with anxiety attacks. Readers are guided through tips and techniques to reframe their thinking and develop a more positive outlook. Overall, this graphic medicine comic is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to understand and manage their anxiety more effectively.
For many of us, anxiety and fear are daily visitors to the mind and body - in this brilliant book, Steve Haines gives us freeing tools to unmask these feelings, and possibly even reduce the causes. What he offers is apparently simple yet full of depth, with a touch of light-heartedness. -- Jonathan Sattin, Managing Director, triyoga
Haines pulls together an accessible and friendly narrative with fantastic high level academic footnotes. These twin levels - with Standing's gently humorous graphics - convince. He takes us past some body-brain-mind confusion, to provide understanding of the workings of anxiety in the person. -- Dr David O’Flynn, Consultant Psychiatrist, Lambeth & Maudsley Hospitals, South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
With great erudition and wit Steve manages to condense philosophical thought, neurological research and psychological thinking into a fabulous tool for re-conceptualising are experience of this bane of modern life - anxiety. Psychoanalysts and others working with people experiencing anxiety will benefit from reflecting on this book and sharing it with their patients. -- Dr Peter Nevins, Psychoanalyst and Director of Islington Mind
If you are interested in understanding a bit more about anxiety and the psychology about it, whether it's to help you understand your own illness, what a loved one is going through or just because you want to educate yourself further on the topic then I couldn't recommend this to you enough. -- A Beautiful Chaos Blog
- Commended for BMA Medical Book Awards 2018 (UK)
ISBN: 9781848193895
Dimensions: 226mm x 166mm x 8mm
Weight: 110g
32 pages