The Infectious Mind: How Social Contagion Makes Us Ill
Autor Matilda Goslingen Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 ian 2027
From the dancing plagues of medieval Europe to the Pokémon episode that reportedly hospitalised several hundred, social contagion has shaped collective health and hysteria for centuries. Today, platforms like TikTok and YouTube are driving a new wave - from functional tics to dissociative identities - with symptoms that mimic those of others and spread at startling speed.
Drawing on history, neurology, psychology and culture, social scientist Matilda Gosling shows how our brains and bodies absorb the emotional currents around us, and how distress finds new forms of expression in each era. This is a book about why symptoms spread, why some become epidemics, and how we can protect ourselves in an age of mass connectedness.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781035924271
ISBN-10: 1035924277
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: n/a
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Apollo
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1035924277
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: n/a
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Apollo
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
An elegantly written, fascinating exploration of the way emotions and social meanings can spread like viruses from mind to mind, producing real symptoms of illness in the body. Every health professional or parent should read it to better understand how mental and even physical dysfunction can be transmitted through a screen
Human distress is a universal constant, but the labels used to describe it are constantly changing as psychiatric fads and fashions come and go. The speed and reach of the internet have accelerated and widened the spread of harmful, socially contagious, psychiatric self-diagnosis. Those who do not know the weird history described in this terrific book may be doomed to repeat it. A fascinating topic that has never been more relevant.
In THE INFECTIOUS MIND, Matilda Gosling argues that we are living at a particularly vulnerable moment in history, as rapid social and technological changes - chief among them the rise of social media - has incubated a fresh surge of social contagions. It is a warning worth heeding, delivered with rare clarity on a topic that is often misunderstood. Gosling demonstrates a mastery of the literature as she moves across five centuries of case material . Her willingness to draw on her own experience with chronic pain gives this book an unusual candor, and her closing chapters on how we might slow or prevent these outbreaks are an important contribution to a field too often left to sensationalism
THE INFECTIOUS MIND is a rich and compelling analysis of socially transmitted illness. Symptoms like pain and anxiety and itching and convulsions can be spread - like viruses - by the human mind. If our minds can 'infect' us, can they not also 'cure' us? Matilda Gosling, is hopeful. She makes the case magnificently in this gripping investigation
Human distress is a universal constant, but the labels used to describe it are constantly changing as psychiatric fads and fashions come and go. The speed and reach of the internet have accelerated and widened the spread of harmful, socially contagious, psychiatric self-diagnosis. Those who do not know the weird history described in this terrific book may be doomed to repeat it. A fascinating topic that has never been more relevant.
In THE INFECTIOUS MIND, Matilda Gosling argues that we are living at a particularly vulnerable moment in history, as rapid social and technological changes - chief among them the rise of social media - has incubated a fresh surge of social contagions. It is a warning worth heeding, delivered with rare clarity on a topic that is often misunderstood. Gosling demonstrates a mastery of the literature as she moves across five centuries of case material . Her willingness to draw on her own experience with chronic pain gives this book an unusual candor, and her closing chapters on how we might slow or prevent these outbreaks are an important contribution to a field too often left to sensationalism
THE INFECTIOUS MIND is a rich and compelling analysis of socially transmitted illness. Symptoms like pain and anxiety and itching and convulsions can be spread - like viruses - by the human mind. If our minds can 'infect' us, can they not also 'cure' us? Matilda Gosling, is hopeful. She makes the case magnificently in this gripping investigation