Melancholia and Depression: From Hippocratic Times to Modern Times

Abstract

It is estimated that 13 million people in the United States daily suffer from an anxiety disorder. Goodwin's book on this condition begins with a six-chapter historical perspective on the concept of The second part of the work introduces treatment. Part 3 deals with the anxiety disorders as defined by the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-III. The book is a concise formulation and will be helpful to anyone living in the '80s, the age of anxiety. Anxiety is an emotion that signifies a danger that cannot be identified or, if identified, is not sufficiently threatening to justify the intensity of the emotion. Fear signifies a known danger, with the strength of the fear more or less proportionate to the degree of danger. Anxiety is generally thought to be undesirable, fear useful.

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