By Srinivasan PillayJun 14, 20091 topic
The Power and Perils of Fear-Based Thinking
I write a Tuesday column for the Huffington Post. In my most recent column about âWhy rational thinking is not all itâs cracked up to be?â a reader commented that my example of a paranoid client was not a good one as paranoia is not rational. I did not say that it was, but used it in the column as an example of how our brains can go wrong and we can still believe them. It struck me that paranoia is a not-so-distant relative of fear. In fact, it is often defined as exces
Primary topic: Anxiety
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