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Author Hoare, Judith, author.

Title The woman who cracked the anxiety code : the extraordinary life of Dr Claire Weekes / Judith Hoare.

Publication Info. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia : Scribe, 2019.

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B WEEKES, CLAIRE    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - NEW Adult Biography  B-WEEKS HOA    Check Shelf
Description 400 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary The true story of the little-known mental-health pioneer who revolutionised how we see the defining problem of our era- anxiety.Panic, depression, sorrow, guilt, disgrace, obsession, sleeplessness, low confidence, loneliness, agoraphobia...The international bestseller Self-Help for Your Nerves, first published in 1962 and still in print, has helped tens of millions of people to overcome all of these, and continues to do so. Yet even as letters and phone calls from readers around the world flooded in, thanking her for helping to improve - and in some cases to save - their lives, Dr Claire Weekes was dismissed as underqualified and overly populist by the psychiatric establishment. Just who was this woman?Claire Weekes was driven by a restless and unconventional mind that saw her become the first woman to earn a Doctor of Science degree at Australia's oldest university, win global plaudits for her research into evolution, and take a turn as a travel agent, before embarking on a career in medicine. But it was a mistaken diagnosis of tuberculosis that would set her heart racing and push her towards integrating all she'd learned into a practical treatment for anxiety - a tried-and-true method now seen as state-of-the-art 30 years after her death. This book is the first to tell her remarkable story.
Subject Weekes, Claire.
Women physicians -- Australia -- Biography.
Physicians -- Australia -- Biography.
Anxiety -- Treatment.
Anxiety -- Treatment. (OCoLC)fst00810978
Physicians. (OCoLC)fst01062841
Women physicians. (OCoLC)fst01178296
Australia. (OCoLC)fst01204543
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
ISBN 9781925713381 (Australian edition)
1925713385 (Australian edition)
9781912854165 (UK edition)
1912854163 (UK edition)
9781950354108 (US edition)
1950354105 (US edition)
9781925693751 (e-book)
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