Our Anxious Selves: Neuropsychological Processes and their Enduring Influence on Who We Are: 0 (IPNB) (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) - Hardcover

Book 76 of 82: Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology

Ginot, Efrat

 
9780393714531: Our Anxious Selves: Neuropsychological Processes and their Enduring Influence on Who We Are: 0 (IPNB) (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

Synopsis

Adverse experiences inevitably happen during development and childhood, and all adults―even high-functioning ones―carry with them childhood fears and anxieties. Growing neuropsychological data explains the ease with which fear and anxiety are activated, and the enormous power they have on the developing brain.

Using recent findings from neuropsychology, Our Anxious Selves shows that who we are psychologically starts with the early presence of an easily aroused fear/anxiety system. It goes on to discuss how clinicians can view people’s difficulties with self-confidence, how identity and self-destructive patterns can be traced back to these systems, and what clinicians can do to help. It also touches on intergenerational transmission of trauma, people’s responses to COVID-19, PTSD and real and imagined threats.

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About the Author

Efrat Ginot, PHD, is a psychologist-psychoanalyst and supervisor in New York City.

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