Using recent findings from neuropsychology, this new book in the
best-selling Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology shows that who
we are psychologically starts with the early presence of an easily
aroused fear/anxiety system. It goes on to discuss how clinicians can
view people's difficulties with self-confidence and identity, and how
self-destructive patterns can be traced back to these systems and what
clinicians can do to help. It also touches on intergenerational
transmission of trauma, as well as people's responses to COVID-19, PTSD,
and real and imagined threats.