TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE

Sunday    4 July 2010         1000 - 1359 (ET)

Promo: 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 (CAR-lat...just how it looks) tells us about the
trouble with psychiatry.

PROGRAM RUNDOWN:"Anxiety"

0:00 - 16:04   SEGMENT 1: (16:05)
     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 One Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio International."

16:05 - 16:34  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

16:35- 40:35   SEGMENT 2: (24:01)
     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 Two Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio International."

40:36 - 41:05  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

41:06 - 53:00  SEGMENT 3: (00:00)
     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."
               
     Segment Three Outcue: PRI Audio Logo


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