A Life of Worry : Politics, Mental Health, and Vietnam's Age of Anxiety / / Allen L Tran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tran, Allen L., Author.

Series:

Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity Series

Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity ; ; 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anxiety--Political aspects--Vietnam.

Anxiety.

Anxiety--Social aspects--Vietnam.

Mental health--Social aspects--Vietnam.

Mental health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : : University of California Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Who, what, and how we fear reflects who we are. In less than half a century, people in Vietnam have gone from fearing bombing raids, political persecution, and starvation to worrying about decisions over the best career path or cell phone plan. This shift in the landscape of people's anxieties is the result of economic policies that made Vietnam the second fastest growing economy in the world and a triumph of late capitalist development. Yet as much as people marvel at the speed of progress, all this change can be difficult to handle. A Life of Worry unpacks an ethnographic puzzle. What accounts for the simultaneous rise of economic prosperity and anxiety among Ho Chi Minh City's middle class? The social context of anxiety in Vietnam is layered within the development of advanced capitalism, the history of the medical and psychological sciences, and new ways of drawing the line between self and society. At a time when people around the world are turning to the pharmaceutical and wellness industries to soothe their troubled minds, it is worth considering the social and political dynamics that make the promises of these industries so appealing.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Part One. Forms of Anxiety

1. How to Worry

2. Moral Sentiments

3. Rich Sentiments

Part Two. Clinical Manifestations of Anxiety

4. The Medicalization of Worry

5. The Psychologization of Worry

Part Three. Anxious Formations

6. Love, Anxiety

7. How We Worry

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

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ISBN:

9780520392175

0520392175

OCLC:

1378065346