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FEAR ITSELF --- THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF THE POWERFUL EMOTION
THAT SHAPES OUR LIVES AND OUR WORLD by Rush W. Dozier, Jr. St. Martin's Press, 1998

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (pxi-xii)

PART 1 --- THE ORIGIN OF FEAR (p1-110)


1) What is fear? (p3-25)

2) The science of fear (p27-57)


Brain Diagrams ---

[1] Kaleidoscope of emotions --- fear, anger, bitterness and reconciliation (p29)

[2] Brain parts that process the emotion fear ---
amygdala, the orbitofrontal cortex and the hippocampus (p 36)


3) Mind reading (p59-77)

4) Why are we afraid? (p79-110)


PART 2 --- MANIFESTATIONS OF FEAR (p111-174)


5) Children and fear (p113-127)

6) Fear and the unknown (p129-142)

7) From anxiety to terror (p143-158)

8) The pleasure of fear (p159-173)


PART 3 --- TRANSCENDING FEAR (p175-242)


9) Diseases of fear (p177-194)

10) The paradise of suicide (p195-206)

11) Fusing mind and body (p207-219)

12) Conscious mastery (p221-242)


NOTES (p243-253)

BIBLIOGRAPHY (p255-258)

INDEX (p259-273)

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