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Why Modern Anxiety? Anxiety has always been with us, but what is anxiety in a technological society? If our tolerance for sensory stimulus is finite, when do we reach breaking point in our frenetic world with its 24 hour media, its visual onslaught, its relentless material aspiration? If happiness is found in moderation, what becomes of us in a world of extremes? These are the threads that run through this collection - with an occasional glance back at more innocent times. Emily Bronte forged, arguably, the most passionate novel in literature from an ascetic daily life inconceivable to most of us, accustomed as we are to distraction. Both over and under stimulated, seduced and sedated by easy-won pleasures - are we losing the facility to reach below the surface? Why Modern Woman? There is a focus in these pieces on the outer reaches, or extremes, of the romantic experience - impossible love, tragic love, disappointments that scar us for life. Are these 'female' themes, or simply attempts to describe the most human of experiences? Undoubtedly we see more writing by and about women, but after millennia of silence, of being almost entirely undocumented and without context - do we even know what a woman is? Ecclesiastes says there is no new thing under the sun, but perhaps a new perspective is possible - and what a weary world needs most.

Author Biography:

An attending psychiatrist at the Wyoming Behavioral Institute in Casper, Wyoming, Dr. Prypchan specializes in Adult, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She has more than two decades of experience in psychiatry, beginning as early as adolescence when she conducted psychiatric patient interviews while assisting her father in his psychiatric practice in her homeland, Venezuela. After obtaining her M.D. degree at the University of Carabobo in Venezuela, Dr. Prypchan moved to Pittsburgh, Penn., where she lived for six years. During this time she worked as a research associate with Matcheri Keshavan, M.D. in the field of schizophrenia, then with Duncan Clark, M.D. in the field of anxiety disorders in children and adolescents with substance abuse at Pittsburgh Adolescent Alcohol Research Center. She then joined Juan Mezzich, M.D. and worked on several World Psychiatric Association projects on Diagnostic Classification Systems in Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh's Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic. Dr. Prypchan trained in general psychiatry for three years at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and for four years at Elmhurst Hospital Center/Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, where she was also a fellow for two years in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Prypchan has written 150 published articles and is a three-time recipient of the National Award of Scientific Journalism in Valencia, Venezuela. ...on Philosophy My Buddhist practice and my Master and Disciple relationship with my father and other mentors have been paramount to my development as a human being and therefore as a psychiatrist... I wouldn't have been able to overcome the challenges I met under the pressure of passing rigorous exams as a student who was older than most, if not all, of her U.S. medical school classmates if I hadn't begun to practice Buddhism. When I began my practice in 1988, I felt as though I was a leaf spun around by the wind, but 20 years later, I feel more like a tree, robust and rooted in the ground of reality. Life is a search, seeking spirit, seeking conclusion. What we want is to find freedom and peace and to manifest our potential... How can this be accomplished? Through unification, not compartmentalization. ...on the Arts I very much enjoy the literary and visual arts. When I'm not practicing psychiatry, I spend a good deal of my time reading books (especially biographies) and seeing movies that explore a combination of psychiatric and philosophical themes.
Release date Australia
January 7th, 2020
Author
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Imprint
Tablo Pty Ltd
Pages
86
Publisher
Tablo Pty Ltd
Dimensions
140x216x5
ISBN-13
9781922381125
Product ID
33076094

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