Chapter 1 Introduction
Introduction
Motivation and aims
A note on terminology
Researching social anxiety
Structure of this book
Chapter 2 The medicalisation of anxious distress
Introduction
A ‘neglected disorder’
Social underpinnings of social anxiety
Concluding remarks
Chapter 3: Situating social anxiety
Introduction
Geographies of health and wellbeing
Spatialities
Temporalities
Restrictive and disruptive temporalities
Layered temporalities
Embodiments
Embodied meaning
Embodied practices
Chapter 4: Temporal intensities: ruminations and anticipations
Introduction
Retroactivity
Anticipations
Ruminations
Concluding remarks
Chapter 5: Making sense of anxious experiences: self-diagnosis, diagnosis, and help-seeking
Introduction
Diagnosing the self
Barriers to diagnosis and support
Seeking formal diagnosis
Affirmative experiences of diagnosis
Negative encounters
Medical and therapeutic spaces
Concluding remarks
Chapter 6: Spatialities of anxious experience I: Home and workplaces
Introduction
Fragmented home spaces
Domestic routines
Anticipatory objects
Housing conditions
Workspaces
Concluding remarks
Chapter 7: Spatialities of social anxiety II: Diminishing social worlds
Introduction
Friendships and family relations
Difficulty and uncertainty
Fewer opportunities
Emotional work
Loneliness and social isolation
Third places
Consumer spaces
Public transport
Concluding remarks
Chapter 8: The (un)habitual geographies of social anxiety
Introduction
Habit
The disruption of everyday life
(Un)habitual geographies of social anxiety
Managing time and space
Spatial routes
Spatial screens
Moments of escape
Concluding remarks
Acknowledgment
Chapter 9: Towards anxious geographies
Reimagining social anxiety
Anxious spatialities
Anxious temporalities
Anxious embodiments
Avenues for future research
Recommendations for policy and practice
Unsung impacts
Biography
Louise E. Boyle is an honorary research fellow in the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. She has published in Social Science and Medicine and co-edited the forthcoming Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Mental Health and Well-Being (2024).
