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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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.