Anxiety in Middle-Class America

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.

Autorentext

Valérie de Courville Nicol is Professor of Sociology at Concordia University in Montreal. She is the author of Social Economies of Fear and Desire: Emotional Regulation, Emotion Management, and Embodied Autonomy (2011) and of Le Soupçon Gothique: L'Intériorisation de la Peur en Occident (2004).

Inhalt

Introduction *

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1. Sociology of contemporary anxiety

2. Self-help for emotional insecurity

3. Separation anxiety

4. Social anxiety

5. Generalized anxiety

6. Existential anxiety

7. Health Anxiety

8. Performance anxiety

Conclusion

Annex A: List of primary self-help titles used for analysis