Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety - Tapa blanda

"[Monkey Mind] will be recognized in the years to come as the preeminent first-person narrative of the anxiously lived life." * Psychiatric Times * "For fellow anxiety-sufferers, it's like finding an Anne of Green Gables-style kindred spirit." * New York magazine's Vulture.com * "Here's one less thing for Daniel Smith to worry about: He sure can write. In Monkey Mind, a memoir of his lifelong struggles with anxiety, he defangs the experience with a winning combination of humor and understanding." -- Heller McAlpin * NPR.org * "Monkey Mind is a perfect 10.... Hilarious, well-informed and intelligent, Smith conveys the seriousness of his situation without becoming pathetic or unrelatable, and what's more, he offers useful information for both sufferers and non-sufferers.... He gives us a reason to stay with him on every page." * Newsday * "A true treasure-trove of insight laced with humor and polished prose." * Kirkus Reviews (starred) * "[Smith] adroitly dissects his relentless mental and physical symptoms with intelligence and humor. . . . An intelligent, intimate and touching journey through one man's angst-ridden life." * The Star Tribune (Minneapolis) * "The book is one man's story, but at its core it's about all of us." * Booklist * "You'll laugh out loud many times during Daniel Smith's Monkey Mind. . . . In the time-honored tradition of leavening pathos with humor, Smith has managed to create a memoir that doesn't entirely let him off the hook for bad behavior . . . but promotes understanding of the similarly afflicted." * O Magazine * "Superb writing [and] marvelous humor . . . If you're chronically anxious and want to better explain to a loved one what you're going through, hand them Monkey Mind." * Psychology Today * "Monkey Mind is fleet, funny, and productively exhausting." -- Ben Greenman * The New York Times Book Review * "This book will change the way you think about anxiety.... Daniel Smith's writing dazzled me..... Painful experiences are described with humor, and complex ideas are made accessible.... Monkey Mind is a rare gem." * Pittsburgh Post-Gazette * "In this unforgettable, surprisingly hilarious memoir, journalist and professor Smith chronicles his head-clanging, flop-sweating battles with acute anxiety. . . . He's clear-eyed and funny about his condition's painful absurdities." * People (four stars) * "Daniel Smith has a written a wise, funny book, a great mix of startling memoir and fascinating medical and literary history, all of it delivered with humor and a true generosity of spirit. I only got anxious in the last part, when I worried the book would end." -- Sam Lipsyte * author of Home Land and The Ask * "I don't know Daniel Smith, but I do want to give him a hug. His book is so bracingly honest, so hilarious, so sharp, it's clear there's one thing he doesn't have to be anxious about: Whether or not he's a great writer." -- A.J. Jacobs * author of Drop Dead Healthy and The Year of Living Biblically * "Daniel Smith maps the jagged contours of anxiety with such insight, humor and compassion that the result is, oddly, calming. There are countless gems in these pages, including a fresh take on the psycho-pathology of chronic nail biting, an ill-fated menage a trois-and the funniest perspiration scene since Albert Brooks' sweaty performance in Broadcast News. Read this book. You have nothing to lose but your heart palpitations, and your Xanax habit." -- Eric Weiner * author of The Geography of Bliss * "You don't need a Jewish mother, or a profound sweating problem, to feel Daniel Smith's pain in Monkey Mind. His memoir treats what must be the essential ailment of our time-chronic anxiety-and it does so with wisdom, honesty, and the kind of belly laughs that can only come from troubles transformed." -- Chad Harbach * author of The Art of Fielding * "Monkey Mind does for anxiety what William Styron's Darkness Visible did for depression." -- Aaron T. Beck, father of cognitive therapy "I read Monkey Mind with admiration for its bravery and clarity. Daniel Smith's anxiety is matched by a wonderful sense of the comic, and it is this which makes Monkey Mind not only a dark, pain-filled book but a hilariously funny one, too. I broke out into explosive laughter again and again." -- Oliver Sacks * bestselling author of The Mind's Eye and Musicophilia *

Daniel Smith is the author of Muses, Madmen, and Prophets and a contributor to The Atlantic, New York magazine, The New York Times Magazine, and Slate.