SPEAKER EVENT
Why Are You Anxious? An Exploration of the Neuroscience, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Anxiety
Thursday, February 27, 2025 | 7:00pm
Avon Free Public Library | 281 Country Club Road, Avon, CT
Description:
Anxiety disorders affect about a third of adults during their lifetimes and can cause significant distress and dysfunction. Symptoms can include worry, nervousness, fear, panic attacks, and avoidance of situations as well as physical symptoms such as palpitations, shortness of breath, muscle tension, and dizziness. This presentation will review the biology of anxiety, the different types of anxiety disorders and their symptoms, and treatment options for anxiety.
About our Speaker:
Susan McNamara, MD, is a psychoanalyst in private practice and recently retired as a medical director at Connecticut Valley Hospital, a long-term public psychiatric hospital, where she treated people with serious mental illness, including those with histories of severe trauma and profound schizophrenia. Dr. McNamara was a winner of the American Psychoanalytic Association Roughton Paper Award. She is a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, Managing Editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association Review of Books, and a faculty member of the Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
This event is not sponsored by the Avon Free Public Library.
