My age of anxiety / Stossel, Scott

Examines the history of medical study of anxiety, offering Scott Stossel's own words on his life in dealing with mental anxiety. Discusses the history of thought on the causes of anxiety, from the writings of Hippocrates up through Sigmund Freud and modern medical research.

The author recounts his lifelong battle with anxiety, showing the many manifestations of the disorder as well as the countless treatments that have been developed to counteract it, and provides a history of the efforts to understand this common form of mental illness.