Daniel B. Smith
In the insightful narrative tradition of Oliver Sacks, ,Monkey Mind ,is an uplifting, smart, and very funny memoir of life with anxietyâ€”Americaâ€™s most common psychological complaint.,Daniel Smithâ€™s ,Monkey Mind, is the stunning articulation of what it is like to live with anxiety. As he travels through anxietyâ€™s demonic layers, Smith defangs the disorder with great humor and evocatively expresses its self-destructive absurdities and painful internal coherence. Aaron Beck, the most influential doctor in modern psychotherapy, says that â€œ,Monkey Mind, does for anxiety what William Styronâ€™s ,Darkness Visible, did for depression.â€ Neurologist and bestselling writer Oliver Sacks says, â€œI read ,Monkey Mind, with admiration for its bravery and clarityâ€¦.I broke out into explosive laughter again and again.â€ Here, finally, comes relief and recognition to all those who want someone to put what they feel, or what their loved ones feel, into words.
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Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety