"In this book, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist answers these questions. It is a comprehensive review of fear and anxiety in most tangible aspects of the modern life. Arash Javanbakht explores how our childhood experiences define the role fear plays in us as adults, how fear may or may not affect our genes, what excessive fear and anxiety can do to our brains and bodies, and the role of fear in the wake of trauma. Readers will come away with a better understanding of fear and how we can tamp its negative effects, how we can treat it medically if necessary, and how we can protect ourselves from fear's most negative consequences." -- Amazon

A psychiatrist and neuroscientist describes fear and anxiety in our brain and body, and how it colors many aspects of a modern human's life. In a way accessible to the public, he explains why we love to be scared, the link between bravery, meaning, aggression, creativity, and fear, as well as diseases of fear and anxiety--and how we manage them

Origin of fear : evolved to be scared -- Wired to be wired : fear in the brain -- Why is my heart pounding? Fear in the body -- How we learn fear, and how we unlearn it -- Haunt my nerves : why we love to be scared -- Courage is not the absence of fear -- I'm afraid, so I'm angry : fear and aggression -- Diseases of fear and anxiety -- Haunting memories : trauma and PTSD -- Taming the beast : how clinicians treat fear and anxiety -- Riding the beast : how to use fear to our advantage -- Fear and meaning : defining it before it defines us -- Fear and creativity : monsters that we forge, and monsters that forge us -- Fear that rules us : politics of fear -- Business of fear