Why we live in an age of anxiety
Anxiety plagues our times. In the UK, 19% of people suffer from depression and anxiety, according to the Office for National Statistics. Anxiety has become part of the cultural furniture. As a clinical condition, anxiety is fairly young – even 30 years ago, it did not exist in the US. But while the terminology has changed, the experience itself is ancient. Witness the work of writers through Auden, Freud, Kierkegaard and Darwin to Hippocrates in the fourth century BC. “Which
Long term psychotherapy proves effective
The Tavistock Adult Depression Study (TADS) is the first randomised controlled trial in the NHS to establish if long term psychoanalytic psychotherapy provides relief for patients suffering from chronic depression that has not been helped by the treatments currently provided: antidepressants, short-term courses of counselling or cognitive behavioural therapy: 44% of the patients who were given 18 months of weekly psychoanalytic psychotherapy no longer have major depressive di
