There is a remedy for fear: thinking How do you avoid global crises becoming personal crises? In this book, Jürgen Wiebicke describes how we can remain hopeful with the help of philosophy. The many political and social crises have an impact on our attitude to life. Many people see their comfort zone and private lives threatened from all sides, which causes feelings such as fear, anger and helplessness. Philosophy had its finest moments especially in times of crisis, and Jürgen Wiebicke analyzes our current situation with the help of great thinkers such as Montaigne, Arendt, Jaspers and Sartre. A comforting book that shows that there is a remedy for fear: thinking. Revised paperback edition; the original was published under the title 'Emotional Balance Disorders' Biography Jürgen Wiebicke, born in 1962, studied philosophy and German language and literature in Cologne. He then did a traineeship at the Sender Freies Berlin, where he was editorial director. Since 1997 he has been working as a freelance journalist, mainly for radio. At WDR 5, he hosts "Das philosophische Radio" every Friday evening, the only interactive philosophy program on German-language radio. In 2012, he won the META Media Ethics Prize of the Stuttgart Media University. He writes regularly for the Philosophie Magazin, which has been published since the end of 2011, and is one of the programme makers of the international philosophy festival "phil. Cologne".