Encyclopedia Neurotica
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,...
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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. Library Journal Have you ever searched for a definition for acquired situational narcissism? Wondered why being human is so tough? Felt a need to understand the appeal of television neurotics like Larry David or Tony Soprano? How about a new list of previously unknown phobias? If you are sometimes neurotic, need to understand someone neurotic, or just need a laugh, this is the encyclopedia for you. The prolific Winokur (The Portable Curmudgeon) has collected an array of neuroticisms for our reading enjoyment. Entries vary in length from a word or two (the definition of self-destructive) to eight pages (famed neurotic Howard Hughes). Bottom Line Usually humorous, sometimes wry, occasionally straightforward and a little scary, this amusing work is recommended for leisure reading collections in all public libraries.-Denise Johnson, Bradley Univ., Peoria, IL Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
\ Library JournalHave you ever searched for a definition for acquired situational narcissism? Wondered why being human is so tough? Felt a need to understand the appeal of television neurotics like Larry David or Tony Soprano? How about a new list of previously unknown phobias? If you are sometimes neurotic, need to understand someone neurotic, or just need a laugh, this is the encyclopedia for you. The prolific Winokur (The Portable Curmudgeon) has collected an array of neuroticisms for our reading enjoyment. Entries vary in length from a word or two (the definition of self-destructive) to eight pages (famed neurotic Howard Hughes). Bottom Line Usually humorous, sometimes wry, occasionally straightforward and a little scary, this amusing work is recommended for leisure reading collections in all public libraries.-Denise Johnson, Bradley Univ., Peoria, IL Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.\ \
