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Panic Diaries: A Genealogy of Panic Disorder

Panic Diaries: A Genealogy of Panic Disorder


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Part cultural history, part sociological critique, and part literary performance, Panic Diaries explores the technological and social construction of individual and collective panic. Jackie Orr looks at instances of panic and its "cures" in the twentieth-century United States: from the mass hysteria following the 1938 radio broadcast of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds to an individual woman swallowing a pill to control the "panic disorder" officially recognized by the American Psychiatric Association in 1980. Against a backdrop of Cold War anxieties over atomic attack, Orr highlights the entanglements of knowledge and power in efforts to re-conceive panic, and its prevention, as problems in communication and information feedback. Throughout, she reveals the shifting techniques of power and social engineering underlying the ways that scientific and social scientific discourses--including crowd psychology, Cold War cybernetics, and contemporary psychiatry--have rendered panic an object of techno-scientific management.Orr, who has experienced panic attacks herself, kept a diary of her participation as a research subject in clinical trials for the Upjohn Company's anti-anxiety drug Xanax. This "panic diary" grounds her study and suggests the complexity of her desire to track the diffusion and regulation of panic in U.S. society. Orr's historical research, theoretical reflections, and biographical narrative combine in this compelling genealogy of panic and its manipulation by the media, the social sciences and psychiatry, the U.S. military and government, and trans-national drug companies. Jackie Orr is Associate Professor of Sociology at Syracuse University.



Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments ix
Prologue 1
1. History, Memory, Story: Openings 3
2. The Martian in the Machine: Panic Theory and Theaters of War 33
3. “Keep Calm!” for the Cold War: Diary of a Mental Patient 79
4. Performing Methods: Cybernetics, Psychopharmacology, and Postwar Psychiatry 165
5. Panic Xanax: A Patient Diary 211
Epilogue 275
Notes 281
Bibliography 323
Index 347

About the Author :

Jackie Orr is Associate Professor of Sociology at Syracuse University.



Review :
"Packed with original interpretations of historical material, textually innovative, and theoretically brilliant, this book is full of mind-blowing insights for anyone interested in the science and culture of panic."--Emily Martin, author of The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction "Jackie Orr is one of sociology's most inventive theorists. Here in Panic Diaries she is brilliantly interdisciplinary, joining social theory with rigorous historical research, feminist criticism, and science studies to give us a genealogy of panic from its invention in nineteenth-century social science to its late-twentieth-century medicalization as panic disorder. And more, all of this is cut through with autobiographic experimental writing that makes your heart beat faster--a first-hand experience of panic. A book to read, a book to teach."--Patricia Ticineto Clough, author of Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Technology "This is an important book about psychiatric research, terror, and the social sciences; and it is a moving piece of experimental scholarship on the history of a feeling state."--Elizabeth Bromley, Anthropological Quarterly "[A] treatise that will be of value to scholars interested in the topics of trauma, anxiety, stress, alienation, and other forms of mental disturbance."--Arthur G. Neal, Journal of American Culture


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780822336235
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Sub Title: A Genealogy of Panic Disorder
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0822336235
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2006
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Weight: 571 gr


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