Author: Petteri Pietikäinen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004160752
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
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.