ENGLISH

The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of Obsession

By Kate Summerscale

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books
Year
2022
ISBN
0593489756, 9780593489758
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
27 MB (28729637 bytes)
Pages
256\0
Topic
History
Time added
2022-09-27 12:39:41

Description

From the winner of the Edgar Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize, a cultural history of “everyday madness” The Book of Phobias and Manias is a thrilling compendium of 99 obsessions that have shaped us all, the rare and the familiar, from ablutophobia (a horror of washing) to syllogomania (a compulsion to hoard) to zoophobia (a fear of animals).   Phobias and manias are deeply personal experiences, and among the most common anxiety disorders of our time, but they are also clues to our shared past. The award-winning author Kate Summerscale uses rich and riveting case studies to trace the origins of our obsessions, unearthing a history of human strangeness, from the middle ages to the present day, and a wealth of explanations for some of our most powerful aversions and desires.

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