Extreme Fear

The Mystery of FearPART I: FEAR IS A PARALLEL MINDThe Person That Fear Makes YouSuperhumanLosing ItPART II: THE STRUGGLE FOR CONTROLThe Structure of ChaosFear ItselfIn Love and War'One of The Biggest Chokers of All Time'The Eyes of OthersPART III: COUNTERATTACKForce of WillSteeling Yourself Hanging On Mastery A New Conception of Courage Notes on the Sources Bibliography

Jeff Wise ist Wissenschaftsjournalist, Abenteurer und Pilot. Unter anderem hat er für das New York Times Magazine , den Esquire und für National Geographic Adventure geschrieben. Er lebt in New York.

'[Jeff Wise] specialises in what he calls 'the adrenalin-cranking assignment', which means he cannot see a ridiculously raging river without wanting to bounce along it. Show him a cave and he'll go down it, a plane and he'll fling himself out of it, a gorge and he'll bungee jump into it. All in all, he's just the man to investigate the nature of fear and how it is generated. His method is to cut artfully between an assortment of his own and other people's terrifying experiences and the science that informs them.' <EM>The Sunday Telegraph</EM><EM></EM> <EM>'Extreme Fear is a correlate of extreme risk - either that, or you just don't understand the situation. Wise provides a fascinating account of how, with luck, it can be conquered by experience and self-discipline.' BBC Focus Magazine</EM>'Wise is a good writer and his anecdotes are arresting...' <EM>New Scientist</EM>'Jeff Wise has a knack both for gripping accounts of real adventure and an impressive understanding of cutting-edge science.'- Robert Young Pelton, author <EM>The World's Most Dangerous Places</EM> ''Extreme Fear' is extremely good, extremely important, and extremely well-written. It's a perfect example of what the human brain is best at: slowing time and motion to a crawl so we can find the 'structure of chaos,' as author Jeff Wise so aptly puts it. Wise zeroes in on that most mysterious of human emotions - panic - and makes us a witness to our own brains, beautifully deconstructing what happens when logic shuts down and instinct takes over. Through Wise, we get to experience what it's like to be a 25-year-old woman facing a cougar; a stunned student in the midst of the Virginia Tech massacre; a physician who has to remove his own appendix at the South Pole; and a police officer who's suddenly plunged into insanity after an argument with a stripper in the Club Kalua. But the best part of Wise's wonderful book is his demonstration that fear,