We frequently hear that we live in an age of anxiety from therapy culturethe Atkins diet and child antidepressants to gun culture and weapons of massdestruction... » 

We frequently hear that we live in an age of anxiety from therapy culturethe Atkins diet and child antidepressants to gun culture and weapons of massdestruction. While Hollywood regularly cashes in on teenage anxiety through itsScream franchise pharmaceutical companies churn out new drugs such as Paxilto combat newly diagnosed anxieties.On Anxiety takes a fascinating psychological plunge behind the scenes of ourpanicstricken culture and into anxious minds asking who and what isresponsible. Putting anxiety on the couch Renata Salecl asks some muchneededquestions Is anxiety about the absence of authority or too much of it? Do themedia report anxiety or create it? Are drugs a cure for anxiety or its cause?Is anxiety about being yourself or someone else and is anxiety really theultimate obstacle to happiness?Drawing on vivid examples from film such as the X Files and Cyrano deBergerac drugs used on soldiers to combat anxiety the anxieties of love andmotherhood and fake Holocaust memoirs Renata Salecl argues that what reallyproduces anxiety is the attempt to get rid of it.Erudite and compelling On Anxiety is essential reading for anyone interestedin philosophy psychology and the cultural phenomenon of anxiety today. «