Rational Fears

Rational Fears
Author: Mark Jancovich
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 1996
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780719036231

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This re-assessment of 1950s American horror films relates them to the cultural debates of the period and to other examples of the horror genre: novels and comics.

The Irrational Fear Cure

The Irrational Fear Cure
Author: Teri Smith-Pickens
Publisher: Flying Enigma Press
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2021-01-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0976159635

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The Fear Cure in 4 Miraculous Steps by Teri Smith-Pickens, tells what happens to a mind already filled with irrational fears and chronic anxiety when it encounters the rational fear of a Pandemic. It unmasks the myth of addictions and gives a deeper understanding of what you face and how to cure it. This prophetic book tells that it is not God’s plan for you to live in your primal brain and remain in bondage to your fears. He wants you to put on your Spiritual anchor which will liberate you from all fears and anxiety and take you out of living in Survival Mode. The Fear Cure is about childhood fears gone awry and teaches parents the restorative qualities of parenting in a new way. Book Review: "Teri Smith-Pickens offers The Fear Cure in 4 steps; come out of denial, surrender - step away from the remote control and give it back to God, replace obsessive-compulsive behaviors (addictions) with a healthy activity until spiritual anchoring comes, and it is time for a Spiritual Reformation - take off the mask and embrace your authentic self. The Fear Cure in 4 Miraculous Steps is a good book to help readers face their childhood irrational fears, live in the present, and let God worry about tomorrow, live each day as if it is the last, and make prayers and meditation their daily routine. The spiritual undertones in the book help readers understand the power of faith and how fear ceases to exist where there is faith." -- Readers Favorite

(Ir)Rational Fears

(Ir)Rational Fears
Author: William Sterling
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-09-06
Genre:
ISBN:

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William Sterling presents 9 stories to convince you that there's nothing to fear when you turn out your lights. The ghost of the kid who died a few years back? Just an urban legend. Those shifting sands farther down the beach? Just a trick of the heat. And that thing breathing beneath your bed? The vents. Definitely just the vents. The air conditioning always runs hard this time of the year, right? ...Right...?

Fear Itself

Fear Itself
Author: Christopher D. Bader
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2020-03-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1479852058

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An antidote to the culture of fear that dominates modern life From moral panics about immigration and gun control to anxiety about terrorism and natural disasters, Americans live in a culture of fear. While fear is typically discussed in emotional or poetic terms—as the opposite of courage, or as an obstacle to be overcome—it nevertheless has very real consequences in everyday life. Persistent fear negatively effects individuals’ decision-making abilities and causes anxiety, depression, and poor physical health. Further, fear harms communities and society by corroding social trust and civic engagement. Yet politicians often effectively leverage fears to garner votes and companies routinely market unnecessary products that promise protection from imagined or exaggerated harms. Drawing on five years of data from the Chapman Survey of American Fears—which canvasses a random, national sample of adults about a broad range of fears—Fear Itself offers new insights into what people are afraid of and how fear affects their lives. The authors also draw on participant observation with Doomsday preppers and conspiracy theorists to provide fascinating narratives about subcultures of fear. Fear Itself is a novel, wide-ranging study of the social consequences of fear, ultimately suggesting that there is good reason to be afraid of fear itself.

The Rationality of Perception

The Rationality of Perception
Author: Susanna Siegel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2017
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0198797087

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One of the most important divisions in the human mind is between perception and reasoning. We reason from information that we take ourselves to have already, but perception is a means of taking in new information. Reasoning can be better or worse, but perception is considered beyond reproach. The Rationality of Perception argues that these two aspects of the mind become deeply intertwined when beliefs, fears, desires, or prejudice influence what weperceive. When the influences reach all the way to perceptual appearances, we face a philosophical problem: is it reasonable to strengthen what one believes or fears or suspects on the basis of an experience that wasgenerated by those very same beliefs, fears, or suspicions? Drawing on examples involving racism, emotion, and scientific theories, Siegel argues that perception itself can be rational or irrational, and makes vivid the relationship between perception and culture.

The Monarchy of Fear

The Monarchy of Fear
Author: Martha C. Nussbaum
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2019-07-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1501172514

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From one of the world’s most celebrated moral philosophers comes a thorough examination of the current political crisis and recommendations for how to mend our divided country. For decades Martha C. Nussbaum has been an acclaimed scholar and humanist, earning dozens of honors for her books and essays. In The Monarchy of Fear she turns her attention to the current political crisis that has polarized American since the 2016 election. Although today’s atmosphere is marked by partisanship, divisive rhetoric, and the inability of two halves of the country to communicate with one another, Nussbaum focuses on what so many pollsters and pundits have overlooked. She sees a simple truth at the heart of the problem: the political is always emotional. Globalization has produced feelings of powerlessness in millions of people in the West. That sense of powerlessness bubbles into resentment and blame. Blame of immigrants. Blame of Muslims. Blame of other races. Blame of cultural elites. While this politics of blame is exemplified by the election of Donald Trump and the vote for Brexit, Nussbaum argues it can be found on all sides of the political spectrum, left or right. Drawing on a mix of historical and contemporary examples, from classical Athens to the musical Hamilton, The Monarchy of Fear untangles this web of feelings and provides a roadmap of where to go next.

The Man Who Couldn't Stop

The Man Who Couldn't Stop
Author: David Adam
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2015-01-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0374223955

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Our siege mentality -- Bad thoughts -- The mademoiselle and the rat man -- An emerging obsession -- The OCD family -- Cruel to be kind -- The God obsession -- Animals and other relatives -- Man hands on misery to man -- The runaway brain -- Daddy's little helper -- The helicopter view -- Long live lobotomy -- Politics and prejudice -- A new dimension -- Final thoughts.

The Importance of Being Rational

The Importance of Being Rational
Author: Errol Lord
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2018-05-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0192546759

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The Importance of Being Rational systematically defends a novel reasons-based account of rationality. The book's central thesis is that what it is for one to be rational is to correctly respond to the normative reasons one possesses. Errol Lord defends novel views about what it is to possess reasons and what it is to correctly respond to reasons. He shows that these views not only help to support the book's main thesis, they also help to resolve several important problems that are independent of rationality. The account of possession provides novel contributions to debates about what determines what we ought to do, and the account of correctly responding to reasons provides novel contributions to debates about causal theories of reacting for reasons. After defending views about possession and correctly responding, Lord shows that the account of rationality can solve two difficult problems about rationality. The first is the New Evil Demon problem. The book argues that the account has the resources to show that internal duplicates necessarily have the same rational status. The second problem concerns the deontic significance of rationality. Recently it has been doubted whether we ought to be rational. The ultimate conclusion of the book is that the requirements of rationality are the requirements that we ultimately ought to comply with. If this is right, then rationality is of fundamental importance to our deliberative lives.

Social Anxiety Disorder

Social Anxiety Disorder
Author: National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (Great Britain)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781909726031

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Social anxiety disorder is persistent fear of (or anxiety about) one or more social situations that is out of proportion to the actual threat posed by the situation and can be severely detrimental to quality of life. Only a minority of people with social anxiety disorder receive help. Effective treatments do exist and this book aims to increase identification and assessment to encourage more people to access interventions. Covers adults, children and young people and compares the effects of pharmacological and psychological interventions. Commissioned by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). The CD-ROM contains all of the evidence on which the recommendations are based, presented as profile tables (that analyse quality of data) and forest plots (plus, info on using/interpreting forest plots). This material is not available in print anywhere else.