Anxiety : a short history / Allan V. Horwitz.

Author
Horwitz, Allan V. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Baltimore, Maryland : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
Description
xvi, 190 pages ; 22 cm.

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    Series
    Johns Hopkins biographies of disease. [More in this series]
    Summary note
    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.
    Bibliographic references
    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.
    ISBN
    • 9781421410807 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • 142141080X (pbk. : alk. paper)
    LCCN
    2013003541
    OCLC
    826288012
    RCP
    C - S
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