Dr Harry Barry’s techniques for an anxiety-free life

When Harry Barry’s sixth book on anxiety was published last spring, it sold out so fast a second print run is now landing in bookshops. So why are so many of us suffering from the condition? Caroline O’Doherty reports.

Forty years ago in rural Tanzania, Harry Barry was walking home at 3am from the missionary hospital where he worked when a leopard crossed his path.

Three in the morning is not a good time to meet a leopard, if indeed such a time exists, but luckily for Dr Barry, he was well-armed. He had his amygdala.