In 'Nerve,' Eva Holland takes a personal journey inside the science of fear
is part memoir and part experimental journalism into the science and psychology of fear. Holland’s engaging, accessible writing brings the science to life, and her sure-footedness when writing about her inner life propels the narrative.
She first tries to tackle her phobia of heights with an extreme type of exposure therapy: skydiving, which she describes as a “blitzkrieg approach.” But the strategy backfires, leaving her traumatized and more afraid than before. The method seems straight out of science fiction, but so have many treatments for various phobias, and Holland traces a history of them spanning millennia. The ancient Greek doctor Hippocrates, for instance, theorized in about 400 BCE that fear was caused by an excess of black bile in our brains, which could be purged by taking a poison that induced vomiting and diarrhea. The picture Holland paints of the current research and treatments is more hopeful.
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