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Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take

The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code

Judith Hoare · 2019
85/100
👍 Worth It

Judith Hoare gives a genuinely overlooked pioneer — Dr. Claire Weekes — the full, carefully researched biography she deserves, tracing a life that was both extraordinary and frustratingly undervalued by the psychiatric establishment. The journalism background keeps the pacing crisp and the narrative engaging even through the clinical history. If you care at all about the story of how we learned to treat anxiety, this one is essential reading.

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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety95
Substance / usefulness88
Craft & writing85
Originality88
Evidence & accuracy85
Hype vs delivers85
Age-fit85
👁 Human-eye gut-check84
Penny’s verdict85
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