How an age of anxiety became an age of depression

Milbank Quarterly

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 112-138

  Horwitz, Allan V ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; Psychoactive drugs

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE; DIAZEPAM; FLUOXETINE; MEPROBAMATE; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PAROXETINE; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VENLAFAXINE;

ANXIETY DISORDER; COST OF ILLNESS; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG COST; DRUG MARKETING; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL PATIENT; MENTAL STRESS; NEUROSIS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHODYNAMICS; REIMBURSEMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; REVIEW; SOCIAL PHOBIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77949902352     PISSN: 0887378X     EISSN: 14680009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0009.2010.00591.x     Document Type: Review

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