Cover; Contents; 1. The Puzzle of Anxiety Disorders; 2. An Evolutionary Approach to Normal and Pathological Anxiety; 3. Normal, Pathological, and Mismatched Anxiousness; 4. A Short History of Anxiety and Its Disorders; 5. The Validity of the DSM Diagnostic Criteria for Anxiety Disorders; 6. Fear and Anxiety in the Community; 7. PTSD; 8. The Transformation of Anxiety into Depression; 9. Setting Boundaries between Natural Fears and Anxiety Disorders; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary
Thirty years ago, it was estimated that less than five percent of the population had an anxiety disorder. Today, some estimates are over fifty percent, a tenfold increase. Is this dramatic rise evidence of a real medical epidemic?In All We Have to Fear, Allan Horwitz and Jerome Wakefield argue that psychiatry itself has largely generated this "epidemic" by inflating many natural fears into psychiatric disorders, leading to the over-diagnosis of anxiety disorders and the over-prescription of anxiety-reducing drugs. American psychiatry currently identifies disordered anxiety as irratio
