BIBFRAME Work

Title

Anxious geographies

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Boyle, Louise E. (author )

Subject

• Social phobia (LCSH)
• Social phobia--Patients (LCSH)
• Social psychiatry (LCSH)
• Social phobia--Patients--Social networks (LCSH)
• Social phobia--Patients--Social conditions (LCSH)
• Boyle, Louise E.--Mental health. (LCSH)

Language

• English

Classification

• DDC: 616.85/225 (Assigner: dlc)
• LCC: RC552.S62 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography
• index

Summary

"Anxious Geographies offers a unique perspective on social anxiety, framing it as both a social and spatial phenomenon. Through a meticulous exploration using online questionnaires and interviews, the book provides a crucial examination of the intricacies of anxious lives. This book presents a critical intervention in the experience of mental health in 21st century society and provides a compelling geographical account of the underpinnings of anxious experience. The book pivots on the in-depth perspectives of people with social anxiety, diagnosed or 'sub-clinical', but with an academic commentary that relates their experience to the medicalisation of a disrupted relational life, offering lessons for all of us in modern societies. Each chapter considers a unique aspect of the social anxiety accounting for the social, spatial, temporal, relational and embodied dynamics, a geographical approach that enriches our understanding of the contexts and conditions that exacerbate and sustain anxious distress. The phenomenological descriptions how social anxiety can profoundly alter a person's coherent, habitual and embodied sense of being in and navigating through their social and spatial worlds. Through the experiential accounts of anxious distress and by considering the social contexts in which they emerge, this book provides readers with crucial insights into the hidden lives of those living with social anxiety. This book will be of appeal to academics, researchers, and postgraduate students in the fields of human geography and across the social sciences and humanities. It will also provide useful insights for academics and health professionals in social psychiatry, social psychology, counselling studies and therapeutic practice"-- Provided by publisher.

Authorized Access Point

Boyle, Louise E. Anxious geographies

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