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In Unnerved Jason Schnittker investigates the social cultural medical and scientific underpinnings of the modern mental state. 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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