Abstract
Petteri Pietikainen, who presented his thesis, C.G. Jung and the Psychology of Symbolic Forms, at the University of Helsinki in 1999, has published a new book – this time, in English: Neurosis and Modernity: The Age of Nervousness in Sweden. It deals with the development of a society that became increasingly characterized by a psychological way of thinking. He investigates the period spanning from 1890 to 1950. Pietikainen shows how the concept of neurosis became what is known as a ‘contagious diagnosis’, and how the process caused terminology like discontent and stress to be adopted into modern everyday language, and that this process is linked to the development of the concept of neurosis.
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