Neuroses, Panic Attacks and All That for Dummies

When the idea of writing this book just started to take shape, the couch experts, of whom there is a legion among the author's blog readers, became extraordinarily agitated. And by simple cellular division, they split into two camps. The... adepts of the latent paranoids camp cried out that the doctor is cunning, he is now going to sow seeds of uncertainty and implant worms of doubt in unsteady minds, and then he'll go on to gather patients by the dozens! The adepts of the scientific snobbery camp raised their pinkies, curled their lips, and said through their crookedness – that is, another guide for dummies, shame on being such! At this rate we will roll into quantum mechanics for dummies! And the doctor, taking note of the most fervent critics, simply went ahead and wrote about neuroses. For whom? For those who are tormented by them – to slightly dispel the fog of terminology and the myths that eternally accompany this topic. And for those who are starting their journey in psychiatry – so that they have something like a simple and understandable guide in hand, written without mind-bending terminology and cunning theorizing in theoretical empires.