Health Anxiety and the Quest for Safety
Health Anxiety and the Quest for Safety critically examines how psychological and sociocultural processes influence anxiety and safety-seeking behaviour concerning perceived health risks in globalised information societies. It provides insights into how people respond to uncertainty and perceived th...
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2026
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| author | Csabai, Márta |
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| description | Health Anxiety and the Quest for Safety critically examines how psychological and sociocultural processes influence anxiety and safety-seeking behaviour concerning perceived health risks in globalised information societies. It provides insights into how people respond to uncertainty and perceived threats to their body and health in the 'age of anxiety'. In examining the history of health anxiety, the author explores fluctuations in concepts, highlighting the power dynamics, uncertainties, and biased social and scientific attitudes in the background. The chapters offer a critical analysis of contemporary safety-seeking strategies, including online health information searches, fad diets, self-tracking, body image interventions, and the pursuit of personal meaning and well-being. Additionally, the book investigates how sociocultural influences can induce guilt about one’s body and health, promote self-blame, or foster stigmatising attitudes, while emphasising how the emergence of 'psy-culture', pop psychology, and digital tools may enhance health empowerment but also generate health-related anxieties and deepen inequalities. As a critical reflection on prevailing individualistic paradigms, the work also considers concepts that emphasise resonance and connectedness. This book is valuable reading for clinical and health psychologists, critical social scientists, researchers, and students in the health sciences, as well as practitioners in all healthcare settings, psychotherapists, and communication specialists. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1741382026-03-19T14:51:15Z Health Anxiety and the Quest for Safety Csabai, Márta Psychosocial risk factors Hypochondria Body image research Digital health behaviours Stigma and self-blame Fad diet psychology Resonance theory Sociocultural influences on anxiety thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine::MBNH Personal and public health / health education::MBNH9 Health psychology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMP Abnormal psychology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFN Health, illness and addiction: social aspects thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMH Social, group or collective psychology thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MQ Nursing and ancillary services::MQC Nursing::MQCL Nursing specialties::MQCL5 Psychiatric nursing / Mental health nursing thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MK Medical specialties, branches of medicine::MKM Clinical psychology::MKMT Psychotherapy thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBS Medical sociology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology thema EDItEUR::V Health, Relationships and Personal development::VF Family and health::VFD Popular medicine and health thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology Health Anxiety and the Quest for Safety critically examines how psychological and sociocultural processes influence anxiety and safety-seeking behaviour concerning perceived health risks in globalised information societies. It provides insights into how people respond to uncertainty and perceived threats to their body and health in the 'age of anxiety'. In examining the history of health anxiety, the author explores fluctuations in concepts, highlighting the power dynamics, uncertainties, and biased social and scientific attitudes in the background. The chapters offer a critical analysis of contemporary safety-seeking strategies, including online health information searches, fad diets, self-tracking, body image interventions, and the pursuit of personal meaning and well-being. Additionally, the book investigates how sociocultural influences can induce guilt about one’s body and health, promote self-blame, or foster stigmatising attitudes, while emphasising how the emergence of 'psy-culture', pop psychology, and digital tools may enhance health empowerment but also generate health-related anxieties and deepen inequalities. As a critical reflection on prevailing individualistic paradigms, the work also considers concepts that emphasise resonance and connectedness. This book is valuable reading for clinical and health psychologists, critical social scientists, researchers, and students in the health sciences, as well as practitioners in all healthcare settings, psychotherapists, and communication specialists. 2026-03-19T14:51:14Z 2026-03-19T14:51:14Z 2026-03-11T15:45:12Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/111423 9781040527337 9781040686560 9781003517788 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/174138 eng Critical Approaches to Health open access Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003517788 10.4324/9781003517788 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781040527337 9781040686560 9781003517788 Routledge 164 Oxford open access |
| spellingShingle | Psychosocial risk factors Hypochondria Body image research Digital health behaviours Stigma and self-blame Fad diet psychology Resonance theory Sociocultural influences on anxiety thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine::MBNH Personal and public health / health education::MBNH9 Health psychology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMP Abnormal psychology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFN Health, illness and addiction: social aspects thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMH Social, group or collective psychology thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MQ Nursing and ancillary services::MQC Nursing::MQCL Nursing specialties::MQCL5 Psychiatric nursing / Mental health nursing thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MK Medical specialties, branches of medicine::MKM Clinical psychology::MKMT Psychotherapy thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBS Medical sociology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology thema EDItEUR::V Health, Relationships and Personal development::VF Family and health::VFD Popular medicine and health thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology Csabai, Márta Health Anxiety and the Quest for Safety |
| title | Health Anxiety and the Quest for Safety |
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| topic | Psychosocial risk factors Hypochondria Body image research Digital health behaviours Stigma and self-blame Fad diet psychology Resonance theory Sociocultural influences on anxiety thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine::MBNH Personal and public health / health education::MBNH9 Health psychology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMP Abnormal psychology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFN Health, illness and addiction: social aspects thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMH Social, group or collective psychology thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MQ Nursing and ancillary services::MQC Nursing::MQCL Nursing specialties::MQCL5 Psychiatric nursing / Mental health nursing thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MK Medical specialties, branches of medicine::MKM Clinical psychology::MKMT Psychotherapy thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBS Medical sociology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology thema EDItEUR::V Health, Relationships and Personal development::VF Family and health::VFD Popular medicine and health thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology |
| topic_facet | Psychosocial risk factors Hypochondria Body image research Digital health behaviours Stigma and self-blame Fad diet psychology Resonance theory Sociocultural influences on anxiety thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine::MBNH Personal and public health / health education::MBNH9 Health psychology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMP Abnormal psychology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFN Health, illness and addiction: social aspects thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMH Social, group or collective psychology thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MQ Nursing and ancillary services::MQC Nursing::MQCL Nursing specialties::MQCL5 Psychiatric nursing / Mental health nursing thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MK Medical specialties, branches of medicine::MKM Clinical psychology::MKMT Psychotherapy thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBS Medical sociology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology thema EDItEUR::V Health, Relationships and Personal development::VF Family and health::VFD Popular medicine and health thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology |
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