Wall Disease: The Psychological Toll of Living Up Against a Border

by Jessica Wapner

Book Overview

East Germans were the first to give the crisis a name: Mauerkrankheit, or "wall disease." The afflicted--everyday citizens living on both sides of the Berlin wall--displayed some combination of depression, anxiety, excitability, suicidal ideation, and paranoia. The Berlin Wall is no more, but today there are at least seventy policed borders like it. What are they doing to our minds?

Jessica Wapner investigates, following a trail of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1615197346
• ISBN13: 9781615197347
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Experiment
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.9" x 7.4"