Anxiety in Middle-Class America

Anxiety in Middle-Class America
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 9781000418750
ISBN-13 : 1000418758
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Book Synopsis Anxiety in Middle-Class America by : Valérie de Courville Nicol

Download or read book Anxiety in Middle-Class America written by Valérie de Courville Nicol and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showing how Americans have massively turned to a self-help empowerment model to manage chronic feelings of insecurity, Anxiety in Middle-Class America explains why no group has ever been as anxious about anxiety and interested in tackling it as a moral and personal problem. Anxiety is the focus of increasing preoccupation and intervention in middle-class America and the late modern world. It is reportedly the most common mental illness in the United States, affecting almost a quarter of its adult population every year. Views diverge on what this means. This work is for readers who are intrigued by the exponential rise in reported rates of anxiety across the lifespan and by all the talk about anxiety, dissatisfied with non-sociological and symptom-based accounts of mental health, and open-minded enough to consider the self-help phenomenon as more than an oppressive craze driven by capitalist industry, neoliberal ideology, complicit publishers, formulaic writers, and irreflexive consumers. In providing a sociologically informed account of some of the most widespread emotional troubles of late modern life and the unique historical pressures that promote them, this work will be of interest to researchers in a broad range of fields, from sociology, anthropology, and mind/body/society studies, to cultural history, communications, and social philosophy. It will also interest mental health professionals and cultural critics.


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