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ANXIETY

Program 10-07-04-B

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It's now the most common mental health problem in the world. Anxiety. And the United States is the country with the highest level of anxiety, according to a World Mental Health Survey conducted in 18 countries in 2002. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, award-winning journalist, Patricia Pearson, talks about her personal struggles with anxiety. And psychiatrist Daniel Carlat tells us about the trouble with psychiatry.

SEGMENT 1:

We look at anxiety and mental illness, the globalization of the American psyche. Patricia Pearson is the author of "A Brief History of Anxiety...Yours and Mine." She tells Anne Strainchamps why she thinks Americans are so anxious.

SEGMENT 2:

Ethan Watters has just written a book called "Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche." He argues that American versions of depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and eating disorders are spreading around the world. He tells Steve Paulson that American has a big influence on how people perceive mental illness. Tufts Medical School psychiatrist Daniel Carlat believes psychiatry is in crisis. He tells Steve Paulson about his book "Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry – A Doctor's Revelations about a Profession in Crisis."

SEGMENT 3:

Brian Kane teaches Music Theory at Yale, and is fascinated by the role that sound plays in Franz Kafka's fiction. He tells Jim Fleming about a presentation he gave last year at Columbia. It was all about "acousmatic sound."

CD copies are available at 1-800-747-7444. Ask for program number 10-07-04-B.

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Books & CDs:

Patricia Pearson, A Brief History of Anxiety...Yours and Mine (Bloomsbury)
Daniel J. Carlat, M.D., Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry – A Doctor's Revelations about a Profession in Crisis (Free Press)
Ethan Watters, Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche (Free Press)

Websites:

• -- Patricia Pearson
  http://www.pearsonspost.com/
  
• -- Ethan Watters/ "Crazy Like Us"
  http://www.crazylikeus.com/
  
• -- Daniel Carlat, M.D.
  http://www.danielcarlat.com/
  
• -- Brian Kane
  http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/people/brian_kane_0

Music:

• -- Music heard in "Anxiety" Mashup:
  -- "Angst in My Pants"/Sparks
  from the album, "Angst in My Pants" (Oglio Records) http://www.oglio.com/webs/pages/artists/Sparks.shtml
  http://www.allsparks.com/
  -- "Viva Viagra" TV commercial
  -- "Nervous Breakdown"/Eddie Cochran
  from the CD, "Somethin' Else: The Fine Lookin' Hits of Eddie Cochran" (Razor & Tie)
  -- "High Anxiety"/Mel Brooks
  from the DVD, "High Anxiety" (20th Century Fox) http://www.foxconnect.com/high-anxiety.html
  
• -- Music heard after Patricia Pearson interview:
  -- "Morning"/Music by Mark Adler
  from the CD, "Focus: Original Score" (Milan Records/BMG Entertainment)
  
• -- Music heard after Ethan Watters interview:
  -- "So Now Then"/Composed by Jon Brion
  from the CD, "Magnolia: Original Motion Picture Score" (Reprise Records)
  
• -- Music heard after Daniel Carlat interview:
  -- "Mulholland Drive"/Angelo Badalamenti from the CD, "David Lynch's Mulholland Drive" (Milan Records/BMG Entertainment)
  
• Music heard during Brian Kane mix:
  -- "Analog #1 (Noise Study)"/James Tenney from the CD, "Selected Works: 1961-1969" (New World Records)
  -- "Etude aux chemins de fer"/Pierre Schaeffer
  -- "Capture ephemere"/George Parmegiani
  
• -- Music heard after Brian Kane mix:
  -- "Soundscape"
  from the CD, "Eraserhead: Original Soundtrack" (IRS Records

Distribution dates: week of 06/19/2011 - hour 1 week of 07/04/2010 - hour 2 click HERE for timings and cues

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