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Some Twenty Percent Of Us Are Afflicted With Common Anxiety And Depressive Disorders--not Just Brief Bouts Of Nervousness Or Sorrow, But Painful Dysfunctions Without Obvious Benefit. Why Do So Many People Suffer From Angst? In This Path-breaking Volume, Engagingly Written For The General Public, Psychiatrist Jeffrey Kahn Reveals That Angst Ultimately Results From Our Transformation, Over Tens Of Thousands Of Years, From Biologically Shaped, Almost Herd-like Prehistoric Tribes, To Rational And Independent Individuals In Modern Civilization. Kahn Looks At Five Basic Types Of Modern-day Angst--pa.