Anxiety is not new. Yet now more than ever, anxiety seems to define
our times. Anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric
disorders in the United States, exceeding mood, impulse-control,
and substance-use disorders, and they are especially common among
younger cohorts. More and more Americans are taking antianxiety
medications. According to polling data, anxiety is experienced more
frequently than other negative emotions. Why have we become so
anxious? In Unnerved, Jason Schnittker investigates the social,
cultural, medical, and scientific underpinnings of the modern state
of mind. He explores how anxiety has been understood from the late
nineteenth century to the present day and why it has assumed a more
central position in how we think about mental health. Contrary to
the claims that anxiety reflects large-scale traumas, abrupt social
transitions, or technological revolutions, Schnittker argues that
the ascent of anxiety has been driven by slow transformations in
people, institutions, and social environments. Changes in family
formation, religion, inequality, and social relationships have all
primed people to be more anxious. At the same time, the scientific
and medical understanding of anxiety has evolved, pushing it
further to the fore. The rise in anxiety cannot be explained
separately from changes in how patients, physicians, and scientists
understand the disorder. Ultimately, Schnittker demonstrates that
anxiety has carried the imprint of social change more acutely than
have other emotions or disorders, including depression. When
societies change, anxiety follows.
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