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U. Vianna Filho In his historical evolution, man has been able to
dominate nature by means of his technological achievements, his
knowledge and his inventiveness, attaining an increasing control
over the world and its organization. As a result, his power over
his fellow men has also increased, giving him more, and more
responsibility which leads, of necessity, to one existential
problem: is the contemporary man, with all his power and knowledge,
really happy? Technological progress has brought him several rights
and desires: health, better insight into the future and greater
control over his own des tiny, but despite all this he still
suffers from insecurity and from all the new problems that he has
to face, which fact accounts for his imperfections and limitations
that inevitably generate anxiety. Anxiety, therefore, constitutes
one of the main characteristics of modern man. It can be foreseen
today that, in the near future, the entire population of any large
city will suffer from anxiety and behave in a 'neurotic' way. Man
is seeking relief from pain, suffering and, naturally, also
anxiety. Thus all possible efforts are being made to find a
solution for this anxiety. The search for substances that are able
to eliminate anxiety is one of the constant concerns of modern
science, and, in this context, one of the turn ing points, as we
will see in this volume, has been the discovery of the chemi cal
agents known as the benzodiazepines."
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