Anxiety : a short history / Allan V. Horwitz.
Anxiety : a short history / Allan V. Horwitz.
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Baltimore, Maryland : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
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G 2014/1196
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Language
English
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Physical content
xvi, 190 pages ; 22 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Afraid -- Classical anxiety -- From medicine to religion and back -- The nineteenth century's new uncertainties -- The Freudian revolution -- Psychology's ascendance -- The age of anxiety -- The future of anxiety.
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Publisher
Baltimore, Maryland : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
Place of Publication
Maryland
Date Published
2013.
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Summary
Allan V. Horwitz, a sociologist of mental illness and mental health, narrates how this condition has been experienced, understood, and treated through the ages - from Hippocrates, through Freud, to today.
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Anxiety : a short history / Allan V. Horwitz.
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Johns Hopkins biographies of disease.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-183) and index.
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G 2014/1196
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74VKMLLqG2DA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKMLLqG2DA
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ISBN
142141080X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781421410807 (pbk. : alk. paper)
DDC
616.8522
MMS ID
991021236069702626
