Capture: Unraveling the Mystery of Mental Suffering Paperback / softback - 2017
by David A Kessler
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- Title Capture: Unraveling the Mystery of Mental Suffering
- Author David A Kessler
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial
- Date 2017-03-07
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780062388520
- ISBN 9780062388520 / 0062388525
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.2 x 0.9 in (20.32 x 13.21 x 2.29 cm)
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From the rear cover
In Capture, Dr. Kessler considers some of the most profound questions we face as human beings: What are the origins of mental afflictions, from everyday unhappiness to addiction and depression--and how are they connected? Where does healing and transcendence fit into this realm of emotional experience?
Analyzing an array of insights from psychology, medicine, neuroscience, literature, philosophy, and theology, Dr. Kessler deconstructs centuries of thinking, examining the central role of capture in mental illness and questioning traditional labels that have obscured our understanding of it. Looking to the emotionally resonant lives of figures such as David Foster Wallace, Virginia Woolf, William James, Tennessee Williams, John Belushi, Sylvia Plath, and Robert Lowell, among others, he explains how this concept is at play in their lives and--by extension--our own.
Ultimately, Capture offers insight into how we form thoughts and emotions, manage trauma, and heal. For the first time, we can begin to understand the underpinnings not only of mental illness but also of our everyday worries and anxieties. Capture is an intimate and critical exploration of the most enduring human mystery of all: the mind.