Neurosis and modernity : the age of nervousness in Sweden

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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Main Author: Pietikäinen, Petteri
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
Series:History of science and medicine library ; v. 2.
Subjects:
Neuroses > Sweden > History.
Neurasthenia > Sweden > History.
Cultural psychiatry > Sweden.
National characteristics, Swedish > History.
Manners and customs.
customs (social concepts)
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Nervous System (incl. Brain)
Manners and customs
Cultural psychiatry
National characteristics, Swedish
Neurasthenia
Neuroses
Neurosen.
Sweden
Zweden (land)
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: The Age of Nervousness; The Triumph of the Therapeutic; Neurosis as a Contagious Diagnosis; The Specifically Swedish Experience of Neurosis; Ideas of Madness: On the Intellectual History of Psychiatry; On the Study of Neurosis; The Structure of the Book; PART I MEDICALISED MODERNITY; Chapter One On the Swedish Path to Modernity; Chapter Two How Swedes Became Nervous; Chapter Three Weak Nerves, Degeneration and Racial Hygiene: Health Ideology in the Age of Nervousness.

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