There is an important gap in the philosophical literature concerning the concept of fear and its remedies, and this book has been designed to examine different concepts of fear that inform its therapy. Structured as a historical-philosophical investigation of the concept of fear, this book is not a purely historical analysis of fear but also provides a broad brushwork rendition of the main concepts of fear as presented by selected philosophers and thinkers, and how they have approached its therapy.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Epicurean concept of fear and the road to ataraxia
Chapter 3: Roman fears: Ciceros and Senecas remedies
Chapter 4: Montaignes Essay: a humanistic approach to fear
Chapter 5: Thomas Hobbes and fear: the political use of a human emotion
Chapter 6: Descartes and the mechanization of fear
Chapter 7: Jamess fears and Wittgensteins therapy
Chapter 8: Sigmund Freud and the psychoanalytical concept of fear and anxiety
Chapter 9: The medicalization and social construction of fear in the age of anxiety
Chapter 10: Conclusion
Sergio Starkstein is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Western Australia. He obtained PhDs in neuropsychiatry (University of Buenos Aires) and philosophy (Murdoch University), and was Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University.
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