Join Dr Tracy Dennis-Tiwary as she confronts our pervasive misunderstanding of anxiety and presents a powerful new framework for reimagining and reclaiming the confounding emotion.

We taught people that anxiety is dangerous and damaging, and that the solution to its pain is to eradicate it like we do any disease-prevent it, avoid it, and stamp it out at all costs. Yet cutting-edge therapies, hundreds of self-help books, and a panoply of medications have failed to keep debilitating anxiety at bay. A third of us will struggle with anxiety disorders in our lifetime and rates in children and adults continue to skyrocket.

Psychologist and neuroscientist Tracy Dennis-Tiwary believes this is because the anxiety-as-disease story is false – and is harming us.

Offering a radical reinterpretation, Dr Tracy will distil the latest research in psychology and neuroscience, to argue that the discomfort of anxiety is a tool, rather than something to be feared and reviled.

Detailing the terrible cost of our misunderstanding of anxiety, while celebrating the lives of people who harness it to their advantage, she will argue that we can-and must learn to leverage even distressing anxiety rather than be overwhelmed by it.

Praise for Tracy Dennis-Tiwary’s Future Tense:

‘This book is going to smash your existing views about anxiety – and replace them with more helpful ones. As an expert on the neuroscience of emotion, Tracy Dennis-Tiwary has delivered the riveting read we all need to help us learn to worry well instead of worrying less.’ – Adam Grant

‘A powerful and deeply informed new voice in the important conversation around anxiety and its causes and effects … a revolutionising shift in perspective.’ – Alanis Morissette

‘Tracy Dennis-Tiwary offers a much-needed and compelling guide – based on years of scientific research and her personal clinical experience – to the emotion that is in some ways most easily misunderstood and, therefore, most undervalued. Clear, practical, and incredibly readable!’ – Angela Duckworth