Schnittker Unnerved

Anxiety, Social Change, and the Transformation of Modern Mental Health
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-231-55356-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Jason Schnittker investigates the social, cultural, medical, and scientific underpinnings of the modern mental state. He explores how anxiety has been understood from the late nineteenth century to the present day and why it has assumed a more central position in how we think about mental health.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schnittker, Jason

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychopathologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Geschichte der Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Significance and Meaning of Anxiety
2. A Late Modern History of Anxiety
3. The Evolving Science of Anxiety and Depression
4. Anxiety Disorders in the United States
5. Family Change and Cohort Differences in Anxiety
6. The Decline in Religious Participation
7. Uncertain Attachments
8. Status Anxiety and Growing Inequality
9. The Ascent of Anxiety as a Therapeutic Target
10. The Past, Present, and Future of Fear
Methodological Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jason Schnittker is a professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Diagnostic System: Why the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders Is Necessary, Difficult, and Never Settled (Columbia, 2017).