Anxiety : a short history / Allan V. Horwitz.

  • Horwitz, Allan V.
Date:
2013
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Description

Allan V. Horwitz, a sociologist of mental illness and mental health, narrates how this condition has been experienced, understood, and treated through the ages - from Hippocrates, through Freud, to today.

Publication/Creation

Baltimore, Maryland : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.

Physical description

xvi, 190 pages ; 22 cm.

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-183) and index.

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.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 9781421410807
  • 142141080X