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The Age of Anxiety

Name: The Age of Anxiety
Released: 2012
Duration: 51 min

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2012
0 hr 51 mins
Documentary

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The Age of Anxiety is a film that delves into a crisis in motion according to the World Health Organization, disorders related to dread are the most prevalent mental illnesses on the globe at the moment. Is this a disease of modernity? Or is our highly competitive and material culture itself undermining our nerves? The Age of Anxiety explores these questions, while also investigating the role that pharmaceutical companies and even the psychiatric profession play in this phenomenon. Is our anxiety fueling an industry that in turn is profiting from and exploiting our dread in a vicious and self-perpetuating cycle?

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Daniel Carlat

Self - Psychiatrist & Author: 'Unhinged'

Allen Frances

Self - Former Chair: DSM Task Force

René Hen

Self - Neuroscientist Columbia University

Awards

2013 - Banff Rockie Award - Best Social & Humanitarian Program - winner
2013 - Rockie Award - Best Social Issues & Current Affairs ProgramInvestigative - winner
2012 - Silver Screen - Documentary - winner

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