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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schnittker, Jason (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.