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Encyclopedia Neurotica
Contributor(s): Winokur, Jon (Author), Lewis, Richard (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0312325010     ISBN-13: 9780312325015
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
OUR PRICE:   $20.69  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2006
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Annotation: Our modern Age of Anxiety threatens to overwhelm us all with angst, ambivalence, and dread. Most of us manage to cope, but not without displaying some pretty bizarre behavior. Enter "Encyclopedia Neurotica, " an irreverent A to Z guide to the tics, twitches, and safety-valve nuttiness of modern life.
Learn about such fascinating foibles as "retail therapy", "shopping as a means of comfort, relaxation, or mood elevation, " or "cell yell", "loud talking on cell phones in public places by people with a neurotic need to invade their own privacy." Find out whether you suffer from "cyberchondria", "hypochondria resulting from seeing one's symptoms on a medical Web site, " or "pronoia, " "the irrational belief that people like you."
From a master of witty compilations, this wry catalog of mishegoss, containing hundreds of illustrative quotations from the famous and the wise, may convince you to lie back and enjoy your neuroses. Or congratulate yourself on not being quite as neurotic as the next guy.

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BISAC Categories:
- Humor | Form - Parodies
- Humor | Form - Trivia
Dewey: 818.607
Physical Information: 0.77" H x 5.58" W x 8.24" (0.59 lbs) 288 pages
 
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We live in an Age of Anxiety. The events of modern life have overwhelmed the average homo sapiens until getting from Point A to Point B without being overcome by neuroses is a practical impossibility. Enter: the comic safety valve. Encyclopedia Neurotica is a delightful garden of the ills that beset modern man. Entries include excerpts from both popular and arcane published works, as well as original definitions, essential terms and the occasional cutting-edge concept, such as celebriphilia, the pathological desire to sleep with a celebrity, suffered chiefly by groupies.
Some samples from Encyclopedia Neurotica:
--Abyss, the: the yawning unfathomable chasm of existential terror
--Acquired Situational Narcissism: a condition characterized by gradiosity, lack of empathy, rage, isolation and substance abuse; mainly afflicts celebrities, who tend to be surrounded by enablers
--Denial: unconscious defense mechanism that numbs anxiety by refusing to acknoweledge unpleasant realities
--Manic Run: prolonged state of optimism, excitement and hyperactivity experienced as part of bipolar disorder

Contributor Bio(s): Winokur, Jon: - Jon Winokur is the author of various reference books and anthologies, including Encyclopedia Neurotica, The Portable Curmudgeon, The Rich Are Different, Ennui to Go and The War Between the State. He lives in Pacific Palisades, California.