Neurosis and Modernity: The Age of Nervousness in Sweden (History of Science and Medicine Library) - Hardcover

Pietikainen, Petteri

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004160752 ISBN 13: 9789004160750

Publisher: Brill, 2007

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Petteri Pietikainen, Ph.D. (1999) in History, University of Helsinki, has published extensively on modern medical and intellectual history, including C. G. Jung and the Psychology of the Symbolic Forms (1999) and Alchemists of Human Nature.

Review:

"Pietikainen draws on a broad spectrum of historical sources, including psychological, psychiatric and medical journals, minutes of the meetings of medical associations, case records both from private practice and a neurological clinic, medical manuals, textbooks, popular books on neuroses and nerve illnesses, and more. One of the merits of the book is this diversity of sources, and especially the use of clinical records, which are rarely used in this kind of broad historical narrative."
Svein Atle Skålevåg, University of Bergen
Medical History, Oct 2008, 52 (4), 556-557 pp.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 9004160752
• ISBN 13: 9789004160750
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 392