Angst is the word for fear in German, Dutch, and Danish. It comes from the same Indo-European root (meaning “tight, constricted, painful”) that gave us anguish, anxiety, and anger. In the mid-19th ...

Editor's Note: The following contains materials that some readers may find disturbing.In an interview with Business Insider, Bruce Nash, the CEO and founder of movie financial database The Numbers, ...

I often hear people talk about angst-ridden creative people, and I've had numerous people ask me as a psychologist whether angst is in fact a necessary ingredient for creativity. Since angst means ...

Anxiety is an affliction with a rich pedigree. Its sufferers have included Abraham Lincoln and Sir Isaac Newton, pioneering psychologist William James and Academy Award-winning actress Kim Basinger.

I’m not entirely sure how I discovered Gerard Kargl’s feverish, controversial feature debut, Angst. Unlike other arthouse serial killer movies like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer or experimental ...

English has many words for the feelings that can arise when a good, hard look at the state of the world seems to reveal only negatives. Hopelessness, despair ...