The Paradox of Fear. How Obsession with Safety Prevents Us from Living

The role of fear in human evolution — through the eyes of a clinical psychologist. The conflict between safety and self-actualization, survival and living. Case studies from practice: finding the balance between safety and development. How to accept your vulnerability, stop being afraid,... and start trusting life. The Tango of Fear and Imagination on the ontological field. Work of the collective and individual unconscious: a view from the workshop. We come into this world as helpless as the first human on bare and unsafe land, and, endowed with the unique gift of imagination, are capable of populating our personal future with a multitude of real and imagined threats. Thus, the most powerful, productive, and creative ability that Homo Sapience owes all its inventions to, from the simplest tool to nuclear energy and artificial intelligence, becomes the main obstacle to self-actualization, becoming a source of stress, phobias, and an epidemic of anxiety disorders. In the pursuit of preventing possible dangers, we — as individuals and as a society — can literally deprive ourselves of the future. This book tells how to face your fears, understand the nature of their emergence, protect your inner child, look into the darkness and see potential opportunities through it.