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A Memoir of Anxiety
Simon & Schuster
July 2012
On Sale: July 3, 2012
224 pages
ISBN: 1439177309
EAN: 9781439177303
Kindle: B0061Q6BQE
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Anxiety once paralyzed Daniel Smith over a roast beef
sandwich, convincing him that a choice between ketchup and
barbeque sauce was as dire as that between life and death.
It has caused him to chew his cuticles until they bled, wear
sweat pads in his armpits, and confess his sexual problems
to his psychotherapist mother. It has dogged his days,
threatened his sanity, and ruined his relationships. In Monkey Mind, Smith articulates what it is like to live
with anxiety, defanging the disease with humor, traveling
through its demonic layers, and evocatively expressing its
self-destructive absurdities and painful internal coherence.
With honesty and wit, he exposes anxiety as a pudgy,
weak-willed wizard behind a curtain of dread and tames what
has always seemed to him, and to the tens of millions of
others who suffer from anxiety, a terrible affliction. Aaron Beck, the most influential doctor in modern
psychotherapy, says that “Monkey Mind does for anxiety what
William Styron’s Darkness Visible did for depression.”
Neurologist and bestselling writer Oliver Sacks says, “I
read Monkey Mind with admiration for its bravery and
clarity. . . . I broke out into explosive laughter again and
again.” Here, finally, comes relief and recognition to all
those who want someone to put what they feel, or what their
loved ones feel, into words.
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