The Age of Anxiety

Author: Andrea Tone
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: B002ECEUX0

The Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers

Anxious Americans have increasingly pursued peace of mind through pills and prescriptions.
Bernstein: Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety"; West Side Story Symphonic Dances; Candide
In 2006, the National Institute of Mental Health estimated that 40 million adult Americans suffer from an anxiety disorder in any given year: more than double the number thought to have such a disorder in 2001. Anti-anxiety drugs are a billion-dollar business. Yet as recently as 1955, when the first tranquilizer-Miltown-went on the market, pharmaceutical executives worried that there wouldn't be interest in anxiety-relief. At mid-century, talk therapy remained the treatment of choice. But Miltown became a sensation-the first psychotropic blockbuster in United States history. By 1957, Americans had filled 36 million prescriptions. Patients seeking made

The Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers

The Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers - Andrea Tone

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Bernstein: Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety"; William Bolcom: Piano Concerto

The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue WH Auden Product code : 9780691138152 Format :Hardback 200 pages Category :Poets/Poetry Published :01 April 2011 Condition :Brand new, unused SYNOPSIS When it was first published in 1947, "The Age of Anxiety" - WH Auden's last, longest, and most ambitious book-length poem - immediately struck a powerful chord, capturing the imagination of the cultural moment that it diagnosed and named. Beginning as a conversation among four strangers in a barroom on

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In 2006, the National Institute of Mental Health estimated that 40 million adult Americans suffer from an anxiety disorder in any given year: more than double the number thought to have such a disorder in 2001. Anti-anxiety drugs are a billion-dollar business. Yet as recently as 1955, when the first tranquilizer-Miltown-went on the market, pharmaceutical executives worried that there wouldn't be interest in anxiety-relief. At mid-century, talk therapy remained the treatment of choice
Patients seeking made