Neurosis and modernity : the age of nervousness in Sweden / by Petteri Pietikainen.
In late 19th-century Sweden, paths to modernity created socio-cultural conditions conducive to the dissemination of the language of nerves. This book shows how neurosis became an extremely contagious diagnosis, and how our modern language of discontent, stress and malaise has a history that goes bac...
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