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Oscar Davis, Assistant Professor in Philosophy and History, Bond University

Can philosophy help us manage anxiety? A new book suggests reading the great thinkers can calm our minds

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Anxiety, a philosophical guide is a book of therapeutic philosophy. Author Samir Chopra’s aim is to take us through the history of philosophy, pointing out those thinkers along the way who have shaped its course.

In confronting anxiety then, this is not a list of prescriptions to memorise and enact, but rather, a rich vocabulary to draw upon in those silent but turbulent moments when we are in conversation with ourselves.

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