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Cargando... The Paranoia Switch: How Terror Rewires Our Brains and Reshapes Our Behavior--and How We Can Reclaim Our Courage (edición 2007)por Martha Stout
Información de la obraThe Paranoia Switch: How Terror Rewires Our Brains and Reshapes Our Behavior--and How We Can Reclaim Our Courage por Martha Stout
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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. InThe Myth of Sanity, Martha Stout, who until recently taught at the Harvard Medical School, analyzed how we cope with personal trauma. In her national bestsellerThe Sociopath Next Door, she showed how to avoid suffering psychological damage at the hands of others. Now, inThe 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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Her hypothesis that the events of 9/11 caused a sea-change in the way Americans see the world is plausible- though there are data that indicate that many of the factors she puts here were in bloom well before that tragedy. And her analogies between the very personal terrorism of domestic violence, and the broader scope of more broadly-aimed terrorist acts, is an excellent one. I also appreciated her checklist of traits that fear-mongers display in their quest for power, though I think it could have been somewhat clarified.
It is also interesting that our current political mess can be described as a conflict between absolutists and contextualists... which seem to have a significant genetic component to them!
The problem is that Stout veers to and from these points in a way that I found both repetitive and frustrating. My guess is that this fairly slim book was written rapidly, and then published rather than being sorted-out and edited. (Obviously I could be wrong about this!)
So- recommended for various insights; I just wish they had been offered more succinctly and coherently. (