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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN num: 9781418426682
ISBN number: 1418426687
Label: AuthorHouse
Manufacturer: AuthorHouse
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 216
Printing Date: November 23, 2004
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Marjorie Raskin takes readers through a lifetime coping with panic attacks that seemed to come from nowhere and shows how she was able, in her fifties, to manage her problems after confronting hidden feeling about being abused as a child in both overt and subtle ways. Her symptoms were treated primarily by psychotherapy, something rarely described in other books. Marjorie believes in using medication for Panic Disorder, but feels that therapy's role in helping anxious individuals resolve their underlying problems is too often dismissed, leaving them markedly dissatisfied with themselves and their lives. This book offers hope, understanding, and direction to individuals who recurrently endure attacks that make them feel about to run, scream, die, or go crazy. It also adds to the understanding of those with less severe anxiety symptoms. Many individual will identify with some of the situations Marjorie describes -bringing up two children as a single parent, working to appear confident in competitive work situations, and re-entering the singles world in her fifties, a Valium in her pocket. Marjorie's professional work allows her to naturally incorporate the evolving saga of psychiatry's attempts to understand and cure panic and anxiety into her own story.
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Although completely different in tone from Gonzales' "Deep Survival", the underlying message is the same - you CANNOT control your emotions, anymore than you can by-brute-force control a horse you are riding - the horse is simply stronger than you are. The reasoning centers of the brain are literally a new add-on, they are sophisticated but they are weak. When the brain-stem feels threatened It Takes Control. Quite interesting to relearn this from the perspective of someone whose business this is - intellectually she knows All About It, but when her brain-stem feels threatened, It Takes Control.
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A physician who both treats and suffers from the same disorder has an interesting story to tell. Unfortunately, this story is told in a rudimentary style seemingly developed at a weekend writer's workshop. Scenes and events are recounted with little of the emotional context necessary for an enlightening read. One begins to sense that Dr Raskin's personal therapies suffered from the same limitations, depriving both her and the reader of satisfying conclusions.
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In one sense, this book is about a childhood dream. In elementary school in Brooklyn, Margie Tucker begins to feel that she may have a calling. Her aunt has been stricken with polio and she thinks about becoming a doctor who will find a cure for her aunt's disease. At age twelve, she makes the solemn decision to go for it. She studies hard, makes top grades in high school, nails the SATs, gets admitted to Radcliffe College and the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia. By this time, another New Yorker, Jonas Salk, has discovered the polio vaccine. But, Margie is about to realize much of her childhood dream. She becomes a doctor, marries a doctor, and as Dr. Marjorie Raskin becomes a psychiatrist at leading hospitals in California and New York. This, in itself, is quite a story. It is a straight-from-the-heart memoir of an often shy Brooklyn kid who hit the books hard and made it through medical school. But, Dr. Raskin's book is much more than that. With all her professional accomplishments and insights as a psychiatrist, she was not able to escape her own early demons. Out of the blue, on the campus of Radcliffe, at Columbia, in hospital wards, and in relationships with men, fellow doctors who loved her, she was stricken with severe anxiety and terrible panic attacks. Why? She didn't know. With the same determination she had in pursuing her career in medicine, she sets out to find out what is wrong with her. It is this story that Dr. Raskin tells so bravely and makes her book such a triumph of the spirit.
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A superb read deserving such coveted accolades as "riveting," "a real page-turner" and "not-to-be-missed." Each chapter segues into the subsequent so compellingly the book is impossible to put down. Dr. Raskin's dialogue rings true, the people in her life memorable, and her splendid candor a worthy standard for anyone writing a truthful memoir. The Anxiety Expert will find a wide audience, including those who can draw hope from her courage in finding a way through debilitating panic attacks, and those of us yearning for books more fulfilling than fiction.
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A very well written account of a psychiatrist's journey
through the decades in search of peace and happiness.
It is easy to become immersed in the author's plight and root for her.
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