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Sigmund Freud, who basically created the field of psychotherapy as we know it, asked, in his book Civilization and Its Discontents, whether it is possible for society itself to become neurotic.

From Slate • Aug. 18, 2024

We should consider what Sigmund Freud in "Civilization and its Discontents" called "the fateful question for the human species":

From Salon • Jan. 21, 2024

Emphatically not, to judge by “American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020,” his latest anthology.

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2021

For example, he wrote the book Hacking Life: Systemized Living and Its Discontents using the classic time-management tip of doing 50-minute chunks of work with 5- to 10-minute breaks in between.

From The Verge • Apr. 18, 2019

The said Peache also testifi'd the Bewitching the Cattle to Death, upon Martin's Discontents.

From The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches by Mather, Cotton