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Anxiety : A Short History.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease SeriesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (209 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421410814
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: AnxietyDDC classification:
  • 616.85/22
LOC classification:
  • RC531 .H67 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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