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Anxiety : a short history / Allan V. Horwitz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Horwitz, Allan V.
- Series:
- Johns Hopkins biographies of disease.
- Johns Hopkins biographies of disease
- Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anxiety disorders--History.
- Anxiety disorders.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- 2013.
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Afraid
- Classical anxiety
- From medicine to religion and back
- The nineteenth century's new uncertainties
- The Freudian revolution
- Psychology's ascendance
- The age of anxiety
- The future of anxiety.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781421410814
- 1421410818
- OCLC:
- 859581704
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