Ill-health in Sweden 2005: Discontent in a modern welfare society and its relation to globalization

Abstract

The growing ill-health in Sweden is related to the crisis of the welfare state and to globalization and the expansion of a new virtual reality affecting the conceptualization of time and space, as well as to wider areas of human interaction, thinking, and ethical judgment. Fear and anxiety are emotional states of mind that have widespread effects on an individual level as well as on the whole of society.

Keywords:

• virtual reality
• judgment
• thinking
• fear
• anxiety

Presented at an international meeting Globalisation, Alienation and Character, Instituto Mexicano de Psticoanalysis A.C. IMPAC, Mexico City, June 2005.

Presented at an international meeting Globalisation, Alienation and Character, Instituto Mexicano de Psticoanalysis A.C. IMPAC, Mexico City, June 2005.

Notes

Presented at an international meeting Globalisation, Alienation and Character, Instituto Mexicano de Psticoanalysis A.C. IMPAC, Mexico City, June 2005.

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Christer Sjödin

Sjödin, Christer M.D. Psychoanalyst in private practice. Training analyst in the Swedish Psychoanalytical Association. Editor-in-Chief of the International Forum of Psychoanalysis. Stockholm, Sweden