Neurosis and modernity : the age of nervousness in Sweden /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pietikäinen, Petteri
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
Colección:History of science and medicine library ; v. 2.
Temas:
Neuroses > Sweden > History.
Neurasthenia > Sweden > History.
Cultural psychiatry > Sweden.
National characteristics, Swedish > History.
Manners and customs.
Neurotic Disorders > history
Cultural Characteristics
Psychiatry > history
Psychological Theory
Névroses > Suède > Histoire.
Neurasthénie > Suède > Histoire.
Ethnopsychiatrie > Suède.
Suédois > Histoire.
Mœurs et coutumes.
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
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 back to the birth of modern neuroses in the 1880s.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 391 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-381) and index.
ISBN:9789047421245
9047421248
ISSN:1872-0684 ;

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