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With this path-breaking level, engagingly written for everyone, psychiatrist Jeffrey Kahn uncovers that the Angst of stress and anxiety and depression in the end results from our change, over tens of thousands of years, from biologically molded, almost herd-like prehistoric tribes, to rational and impartial individuals in modern civilization. Due to our Reason, we don't choose to act like sheep. Kahn looks at five basic types of modern-day angst - Panic Anxiety, Social Nervousness, OCD, Atypical Major depression, and Melancholic Major depression - and shows how each derives from primeval sociable intuition that once helped our ancestors endure. For example, the "anxiety attacks" which prevents many people from soaring may have formerly changed to keep our tribal ancestors from going dangerously definately not home. Furthermore, the increased emotional sensitivity to sociable rejection that now causes episodes of "atypical major depression" may have helped maintain polite patterns and social tranquility inside our ancestors. Our distinctly human civilization and logical consciousness lets us defy these sociable intuition. But those over-ridden intuition can resurface as demanding emotional disorders. Kahn records that some people painfully handle this problems head-on, with techniques that can move forward intellectual creativity, sociable performance and output. He also explains the interplay of instinct with the move forward of civilization, and about how evolutionary perspective points out why modern treatments work. Ranging from Darwin and Freud to the most cutting-edge medical and technological results - drawing from traditional writings, modern humor and popular lyrics, and numerous amusing cartoons - Angst offers us an exciting new slant on some of the most pervasive mental health issues of our own time.
