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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

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Author

Valérie de Courville Nicol

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780367760861

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Sociology, Social Sciences