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      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Dedication

       Introduction

Fear and the Fear of Fear

1 The Nature of Fear

• Fight or Flight

• Unavoidable Conflicts

• Fear of Life and Death

• Fear of Not Being Good Enough

2 Understanding the Nature of Fear

• Brains and Minds

• Our Greatest Fear

• A Choice of Defences

3 Fear Denied

• Denying Fear as ‘Character’

• Denying Other People’s Pain

4 Learning How to Deny

• The Perils of Childhood

• The Perils of Sexuality

• Denying Who You Are

5 How Society Responds to Mental Distress

       • What Has Stayed the Same?

       • What Has Changed, and for the Better?

       The Alternatives

       6 Choosing a Defence

       • Popular but Confusing Diagnoses

       • Choosing a Desperate Defence

       7 A Bodily Solution?

       • Not Frightened, Just Ill

       • From Fear to Illness

       • Punishing the Body to Ease the Mind

       8 Turning Fear into Depression

       • The Story of Depression

       • Public Discourse - Muddle and Confusion

       • Do Pills Cure Depression?

       • The Way Out of the Prison

       9 Turning Fear into Anxiety, Panic and Phobias

       • Panic and the Fear of Panic

       • Relinquishing Panic, Phobias and Fear

       10 Turning Fear into Mania

       • The Manic Defence

       • Finding Yourself

       11 Turning Fear into Obsessions and Compulsions

       • Doubt, Hate and the Denial of Feeling

       • Gaining Freedom

       12 Turning Fear into Schizophrenia

       • An Idea Called Schizophrenia

       • Are Drugs the Answer?

       • Hearing Voices

       • The Road to Recovery

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