Anxiety : A Short History.
Horwitz, Allan V.
Anxiety : A Short History. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (209 pages) - Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease Series . - Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Afraid -- Chapter 2. Classical Anxiety -- Chapter 3. From Medicine to Religion-and Back -- Chapter 4. The Nineteenth Century's New Uncertainties -- Chapter 5. The Freudian Revolution -- Chapter 6. Psychology's Ascendance -- Chapter 7. The Age of Anxiety -- Chapter 8. The Future of Anxiety -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
As Horwitz explores the history and multiple identities of anxiety--melancholia, nerves, neuroses, phobias, and so on--it becomes clear that every age has had its own anxieties and that culture plays a role in shaping how anxiety is expressed.
9781421410814
Anxiety disorders-History.
Electronic books.
RC531 .H67 2013
616.85/22
Anxiety : A Short History. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (209 pages) - Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease Series . - Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Afraid -- Chapter 2. Classical Anxiety -- Chapter 3. From Medicine to Religion-and Back -- Chapter 4. The Nineteenth Century's New Uncertainties -- Chapter 5. The Freudian Revolution -- Chapter 6. Psychology's Ascendance -- Chapter 7. The Age of Anxiety -- Chapter 8. The Future of Anxiety -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
As Horwitz explores the history and multiple identities of anxiety--melancholia, nerves, neuroses, phobias, and so on--it becomes clear that every age has had its own anxieties and that culture plays a role in shaping how anxiety is expressed.
9781421410814
Anxiety disorders-History.
Electronic books.
RC531 .H67 2013
616.85/22