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The woman who cracked the anxiety code : the extraordinary life of Dr Claire Weekes / Judith Hoare.

By: Publisher: Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2019Description: 400 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781925713381
Other title:
  • Extraordinary life of Dr Claire Weekes
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 610.92 23
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1.Misdiagnosis -- 2.Her Mother's Daughter -- 3.The Evolution of Claire -- 4.Meeting Marcel -- 5.Lizard Babies and the Lizard Brain -- 6.The Shadow of Death -- 7.Sinking and Floating -- 8.Darwin and the Heart of the Matter -- 9.Now, Here Was a Teacher -- 10.A Template for a Book -- 11.Life in a Cold Climate -- 12.The Song of Beth -- 13.Dr Weekes' European Travel Advice Bureau -- 14.The World at War -- 15.Dr Weekes, Redux -- 16.The House of Women -- 17.The Birth of a Book -- 18.Self Help for Your Nerves -- 19.Unscientific Science -- 20.Getting a Grip on the Market -- 21.A Second Home -- 22.Bad Business -- 23.Peace from Agoraphobia -- 24.A Pioneer of Fear -- 25.Living in Two Worlds -- 26.The Soulmate -- 27.Vindication -- 28.Old Age -- 29.The BBC and a Blizzard of Letters -- 30.The Sound of Closing Doors -- 31.A Blow to the Brain -- 32.Eyes on the Prize -- 33.The Nobel Nomination -- 34.Final Days.
Summary: The true story of the little-known mental-health pioneer who revolutionised how we see the defining problem of our era- anxiety. Panic, depression, sorrow, guilt, disgrace, obsession, sleeplessness, low confidence, loneliness, agoraphobia . . . The international bestseller Self-Help for Your Nerves, first published in 1962 and still in print, has helped tens of millions of people to overcome all of these, and continues to do so. Yet even as letters and phone calls from readers around the world flooded in, thanking her for helping to improve - and in some cases to save - their lives, Dr Claire Weekes was dismissed as underqualified and overly populist by the psychiatric establishment. Just who was this woman? Claire Weekes was driven by a restless and unconventional mind that saw her become the first woman to earn a Doctor of Science degree at Australia's oldest university, win global plaudits for her research into evolution, and take a turn as a travel agent, before embarking on a career in medicine. But it was a mistaken diagnosis of tuberculosis that would set her heart racing and push her towards integrating all she'd learned into a practical treatment for anxiety - a tried-and-true method now seen as state-of-the-art 30 years after her death. This book is the first to tell her remarkable story.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 610.92 WEE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 68282

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1.Misdiagnosis -- 2.Her Mother's Daughter -- 3.The Evolution of Claire -- 4.Meeting Marcel -- 5.Lizard Babies and the Lizard Brain -- 6.The Shadow of Death -- 7.Sinking and Floating -- 8.Darwin and the Heart of the Matter -- 9.Now, Here Was a Teacher -- 10.A Template for a Book -- 11.Life in a Cold Climate -- 12.The Song of Beth -- 13.Dr Weekes' European Travel Advice Bureau -- 14.The World at War -- 15.Dr Weekes, Redux -- 16.The House of Women -- 17.The Birth of a Book -- 18.Self Help for Your Nerves -- 19.Unscientific Science -- 20.Getting a Grip on the Market -- 21.A Second Home -- 22.Bad Business -- 23.Peace from Agoraphobia -- 24.A Pioneer of Fear -- 25.Living in Two Worlds -- 26.The Soulmate -- 27.Vindication -- 28.Old Age -- 29.The BBC and a Blizzard of Letters -- 30.The Sound of Closing Doors -- 31.A Blow to the Brain -- 32.Eyes on the Prize -- 33.The Nobel Nomination -- 34.Final Days.

The true story of the little-known mental-health pioneer who revolutionised how we see the defining problem of our era- anxiety. Panic, depression, sorrow, guilt, disgrace, obsession, sleeplessness, low confidence, loneliness, agoraphobia . . . The international bestseller Self-Help for Your Nerves, first published in 1962 and still in print, has helped tens of millions of people to overcome all of these, and continues to do so. Yet even as letters and phone calls from readers around the world flooded in, thanking her for helping to improve - and in some cases to save - their lives, Dr Claire Weekes was dismissed as underqualified and overly populist by the psychiatric establishment. Just who was this woman? Claire Weekes was driven by a restless and unconventional mind that saw her become the first woman to earn a Doctor of Science degree at Australia's oldest university, win global plaudits for her research into evolution, and take a turn as a travel agent, before embarking on a career in medicine. But it was a mistaken diagnosis of tuberculosis that would set her heart racing and push her towards integrating all she'd learned into a practical treatment for anxiety - a tried-and-true method now seen as state-of-the-art 30 years after her death. This book is the first to tell her remarkable story.

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