Neurosis and modernity : the age of nervousness in Sweden /
Pietikäinen, Petteri.
Neurosis and modernity : the age of nervousness in Sweden / by Petteri Pietikainen. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007. - 1 online resource (xii, 391 pages) - History of science and medicine library, v. 2 1872-0684 ; . - History of science and medicine library ; v. 2. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-381) and index.
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.
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.
9789047421245 (electronic bk.) 9047421248 (electronic bk.)
10.1163/ej.9789004160750.i-391 doi
Neuroses--History.--Sweden
Neurasthenia--History.--Sweden
Cultural psychiatry--Sweden.
National characteristics, Swedish--History.
Manners and customs.
Neurotic Disorders--history
Cultural Characteristics
Psychiatry--history
Psychological Theory
Névroses--Histoire.--Suède
Neurasthénie--Histoire.--Suède
Ethnopsychiatrie--Suède.
Suédois--Histoire.
Mœurs et coutumes.
HEALTH & FITNESS--Diseases--Nervous System (incl. Brain)
Cultural psychiatry.
National characteristics, Swedish.
Neurasthenia.
Neuroses.
Neurosen.
Sweden
Sweden.
Zweden (land)
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
RC530 / .P54 2007eb
362.196/8009485
WM 11 GS8 / P625n 2007 2008 B-223
Neurosis and modernity : the age of nervousness in Sweden / by Petteri Pietikainen. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007. - 1 online resource (xii, 391 pages) - History of science and medicine library, v. 2 1872-0684 ; . - History of science and medicine library ; v. 2. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-381) and index.
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.
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.
9789047421245 (electronic bk.) 9047421248 (electronic bk.)
10.1163/ej.9789004160750.i-391 doi
Neuroses--History.--Sweden
Neurasthenia--History.--Sweden
Cultural psychiatry--Sweden.
National characteristics, Swedish--History.
Manners and customs.
Neurotic Disorders--history
Cultural Characteristics
Psychiatry--history
Psychological Theory
Névroses--Histoire.--Suède
Neurasthénie--Histoire.--Suède
Ethnopsychiatrie--Suède.
Suédois--Histoire.
Mœurs et coutumes.
HEALTH & FITNESS--Diseases--Nervous System (incl. Brain)
Cultural psychiatry.
National characteristics, Swedish.
Neurasthenia.
Neuroses.
Neurosen.
Sweden
Sweden.
Zweden (land)
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
RC530 / .P54 2007eb
362.196/8009485
WM 11 GS8 / P625n 2007 2008 B-223