Neurosis and Modernity: The Age of Nervousness in Sweden

ISBN-13: 9789004160750 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 392 str.

Petteri Pietikainen

Opis

In western countries, paths to modernity created socio-cultural conditions conducive to the dissemination of the language of nerves. This book examines historically the ways in which neurosis became a contagious diagnosis in Sweden, attaining the status of a national malady.