BOOKS

The Invisible Drama

Women and the Anxiety of Change

First Edition: Macmillan, 1987
Second Edition: CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2013


Psychologists report that anxiety has replaced depression as the number one challenge to a woman's sense of well-being and good mental health.

Through extensive personal interviews with individuals, groups, and therapists, author Carol Becker examines the most prevalent forms of anxiety among women-and the often subtle and surprising physical and emotional ways in which it negatively manifests itself. 

Through astute analysis and with compassionate insight, Becker helps readers understand how change provokes anxiety and also discover its great potential as a tool in restoring psychic health. This book offers women of all ages the support and guidance they need to transform anxiety into positive change and lead happier, more confident, and fully empowered lives.


Foreign Language Editions of The Invisible Drama: Women and the Anxiety of Change

Spanish Language edition
El Drama Invisible, Pax-Mexico, Spring, 1989.

Dutch Language edition
Het Verborgen Dramat, Ambo bv, Spring, 1989.

Swedish Language edition
Det Osynliga Dramat, Wahlstrom and Widstrind, Stockholm, Spring, 1989.

German Language edition
Das Unsichtbare Drama, Modern Verlag, Spring, 1989.

Greek Language edition
Pyli, Athens, Fall, 1990.

Chinese Language edition
Sampo Cultural Foundation, Taiwan China, Spring, 1989.


“A coherent and supportive guide...which explores sources of anxiety, explains psychic resistance to change, and suggests ways to define emotional health and maturity.”

Library Journal

“A major work that synthesizes experience and scholarship in order to—miraculously—empower women for the future.”

B. Ruby Rich, author of Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement

“A richly insightful analysis of women's collective psyche... [showing] women that when they control their anxiety, they can become all they dare to imagine.”

Amy O'Loughlin, Foreword Clarion