Fear Paradox: How Our Obsession with Feeling Secure Imprisons Our Minds and Shapes Our Lives

We fear reaching extreme comfort and safety, which embeds fear in our culture, creates new dangers, isolates us, and distances us from our imagination. This book aims to break free from this trap. For anyone suffering from global pandemic anxiety caused by the new coronavirus, this book explores one of the most powerful and primitive human emotions: fear. This is a history and culture of fear. Over the last five hundred years, life has changed dramatically, but new dangers emerge because our level of fear remains constant.

Author Dr. Frank Faranda studied a state of fearfulness in his patients, an evolutionary state that drives avoidance, alienation, hypercriticism, hyper-control, and eventually, depression and anxiety. He wondered what they were afraid of and how embedded these fears might be in society. This book aims to break free from what he found.

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