Unnerved : anxiety, social change, and the transformation of modern mental health /

Anxiety is not new. Yet now more than ever, anxiety seems to define our times. Anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric disorders in the United States, exceeding mood, impulse-control and substance-use disorders, and they are especially common among younger cohorts. More and more Americans...

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Main Author: Schnittker, Jason (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]
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505 0 |a The significance and meaning of anxiety -- A late modern history of anxiety -- The evolving science of anxiety and depression -- Anxiety disorders in the United States -- Family change and cohort differences in anxiety -- The decline in religious participation -- Uncertain attachments -- Status anxiety and growing inequality -- The ascent of anxiety as a therapeutic target -- The past, present, and future of fear. 
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