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Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Introduction

Fear and the Fear of Fear

1 The Nature of Fear

• Fight or Flight

• Unavoidable Conflicts

• Fear of Life and Death

• Fear of Not Being Good Enough

2 Understanding the Nature of Fear

• Brains and Minds

• Our Greatest Fear

• A Choice of Defences

3 Fear Denied

• Denying Fear as ‘Character’

• Denying Other People’s Pain

4 Learning How to Deny

• The Perils of Childhood

• The Perils of Sexuality

• Denying Who You Are

5 How Society Responds to Mental Distress

• What Has Stayed the Same?

• What Has Changed, and for the Better?

The Alternatives

6 Choosing a Defence

• Popular but Confusing Diagnoses

• Choosing a Desperate Defence

7 A Bodily Solution?

• Not Frightened, Just Ill

• From Fear to Illness

• Punishing the Body to Ease the Mind

8 Turning Fear into Depression

• The Story of Depression

• Public Discourse - Muddle and Confusion

• Do Pills Cure Depression?

• The Way Out of the Prison

9 Turning Fear into Anxiety, Panic and Phobias

• Panic and the Fear of Panic

• Relinquishing Panic, Phobias and Fear

10 Turning Fear into Mania

• The Manic Defence

• Finding Yourself

11 Turning Fear into Obsessions and Compulsions

• Doubt, Hate and the Denial of Feeling

• Gaining Freedom

12 Turning Fear into Schizophrenia

• An Idea Called Schizophrenia

• Are Drugs the Answer?

• Hearing Voices

• The Road to Recovery

13 Turning Fear into Courage

Notes

Books and Websites

Index

Acknowledgements

Copyright

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