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  title info:
    title: Unnerved
    sub title: anxiety, social change, and the transformation of modern mental health
  name:
    name part: Schnittker, Jason
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vi, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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 are taking antianxiety medications. According to polling data, anxiety is experienced more frequently than other negative emotions. Why have we become so anxious? In Unnerved, Jason Schnittker investigates the social, cultural, medical and scientific underpinnings of the modern mental state. He explores how anxiety has been understood from the late nineteenth century to the present day and why it has assumed a more central position in how we think about mental health. Contrary to the claims that anxiety reflects large-scale traumas, abrupt social transitions, or technological revolutions, Schnittker argues that the ascent of anxiety has been driven by slow transformations in people, institutions and social environments. Changes in family formation, religion, inequality and social relationships have all primed people to be more anxious. At the same time, the scientific and medical understanding of anxiety has evolved, pushing it further to the fore. The rise in anxiety cannot be explained separately from changes in how patients, physicians and scientists understand the disorder. Ultimately, Schnittker demonstrates that anxiety has carried the imprint of social change more acutely than have other emotions or disorders, including depression. When societies change, anxiety follows.
  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.
  note: Jason Schnittker.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Anxiety
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Anxiety disorders
  subject:
    topic: PSYCHOLOGY / General
  classification: BF575.A6 S36 2021
  classification: 152.4/6
  identifier: 9780231200349
  identifier: 023120034X
  identifier: 9780231200356
  identifier: 0231200358
  identifier: 9780231553568
  identifier: 2020045611
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 201014
    record change date: 20211018101215.0
    record identifier: in00004444855