Anxious Geographies

Worlds of Social Anxiety

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvLouise E. Boyle

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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 the 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 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 herein, capture 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-10-27
Mått156 x 234 x 9 mm
Vikt300 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieGeographies of Health Series
Antal sidor150
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032074368

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Chapter 1 IntroductionIntroductionMotivation and aimsA note on terminologyResearching social anxietyStructure of this bookChapter 2 The medicalisation of anxious distressIntroductionA ‘neglected disorder’Social underpinnings of social anxietyConcluding remarksChapter 3: Situating social anxietyIntroductionGeographies of health and wellbeingSpatialitiesTemporalitiesRestrictive and disruptive temporalitiesLayered temporalitiesEmbodimentsEmbodied meaningEmbodied practicesConcluding remarksChapter 4: Temporal intensities: ruminations and anticipationsIntroductionRetroactivityAnticipationsRuminationsConcluding remarksChapter 5: Making sense of anxious experiences: self-diagnosis, diagnosis, and help-seekingIntroductionDiagnosing the selfBarriers to diagnosis and supportSeeking formal diagnosisAffirmative experiences of diagnosisNegative encountersMedical and therapeutic spacesConcluding remarksChapter 6: Spatialities of anxious experience I: Home and workplacesIntroductionHomeFragmented home spacesDomestic routinesAnticipatory objectsHousing conditionsWorkspacesConcluding remarksChapter 7: Spatialities of social anxiety II: Diminishing social worldsIntroductionFriendships and family relationsDifficulty and uncertaintyFewer opportunitiesEmotional workLoneliness and social isolationThird placesConsumer spacesPublic transportConcluding remarksChapter 8: The (un)habitual geographies of social anxietyIntroductionHabitThe disruption of everyday life(Un)habitual geographies of social anxietyManaging time and spaceSpatial routesSpatial screensMoments of escapeConcluding remarksAcknowledgmentChapter 9: Towards anxious geographiesReimagining social anxietyAnxious spatialitiesAnxious temporalitiesAnxious embodimentsAvenues for future researchRecommendations for policy and practiceUnsung impacts

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