Download or read book Neurosis and Modernity written by Petteri Pietikäinen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.