3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Erica Komisar's 2023 book arguing that parental anxiety is being transmitted to children — and that well-meaning protective parenting is producing the anxiety epidemic in children — with a framework for raising resilient rather than anxious children.
British psychologist — Oxford and Institute of Psychiatry — who created the Behavioral Inhibition System/Behavioral Activation System (BIS/BAS) theory of anxiety and personality — whose work is a foundational influence on Jordan Peterson.
Jeffrey Gray's 1982 account of anxiety — proposing the Behavioral Inhibition System (BIS) as the neural mechanism underlying anxiety — integrating animal learning, pharmacology, and neuroanatomy in the most comprehensive biological theory of anxiety.