Fagburn: My Age Of Anxiety

Anxiety is fear in the absence of danger. For sufferers and analysts alike, this apparent causelessness is a painful mystery. Why do we torment ourselves with threats that do not exist? In this ambitious, superbly wide-ranging book, Stossel uses his lifelong experience of anxiety as a “secure base” from which to explore this riddle, returning again and again to the same conundrum: is anxiety a biological malfunction or does it stem from an existential crisis?

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PS Sara Maitland in The Guardian on solitude. It's a good press day for miserabilists today.