1. The Significance and Meaning of Anxiety
2. A Late Modern History of Anxiety
3. The Evolving Science of Anxiety and Depression
4. Anxiety Disorders in the United States
5. Family Change and Cohort Differences in Anxiety
6. The Decline in Religious Participation
7. Uncertain Attachments
8. Status Anxiety and Growing Inequality
9. The Ascent of Anxiety as a Therapeutic Target
10. The Past, Present, and Future of Fear
Methodological Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Jason Schnittker is a professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Diagnostic System: Why the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders Is Necessary, Difficult, and Never Settled (Columbia, 2017).