num_pages: 212
description: In the insightful narrative tradition of Oliver Sacks Monkey Mind is an uplifting smart and very funny memoir of life with anxietyAmericas most common psychological complaint.Daniel Smiths Monkey Mind is the stunning articulation of what it is like to live with anxiety. As he travels through anxietys 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 Monkey Mind does for anxiety what William Styrons Darkness Visible did for depression. Neurologist and bestselling writer Oliver Sacks says I read Monkey Mind with admiration for its bravery and clarity.I broke out into explosive laughter again and again. 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.
language: English
title: Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
publisher: Simon & Schuster