The meaning of anxiety / by Rollo May.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

May, Rollo, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anxiety.

Anxiety--Prevention.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Pickle Partners Publishing, [2015]

Summary:

When this important work was originally published in 1950--the first book in this country on anxiety--it was hailed as a work ahead of its time.This book is the result of several years of exploration, research, and thought on one of the most urgent problems of our day. Clinical experience has proved to psychologists and psychiatrists generally that the central problem in psychotherapy is the nature of anxiety. To the extent that we have been able to solve that problem, we have made a beginning in understanding the causes of integration and disintegration of personality.But if anxiety were merely a phenomenon of maladjustment, it might well be consigned to the consulting room and the clinic and this book to the professional library. The evidence is overwhelming, however, that men and women of today live in an "age of anxiety." If one penetrates below the surface of political, economic, business, professional, or domestic crises to discover their psychological causes, or if one seeks to understand modern art or poetry or philosophy or religion, one runs athwart the problem of anxiety at almost every turn. There is reason to believe that the ordinary stresses and strains of life in the changing world of today are such that few if any escape the need to confront anxiety and to deal with it in some manner.This study seeks to bring together in one volume the theories of anxiety offered by modern explorers in different areas of our culture, to discover the common elements in these theories, and to formulate these concepts so that we shall have some common ground for further inquiry. If the synthesis of anxiety theory presented here serves the purpose of producing some coherence and order in this field, a good part of the writer's goal will have been achieved.

Contents:

Intro

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PART I - MODERN INTERPRETATIONS OF ANXIETY

Chapter 1- INTRODUCTION

1. CENTRALITY OF THE PROBLEM OF ANXIETY IN OUR DAY

2. PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY

Chapter 2 - PHILOSOPHICAL PREDECESSORS TO MODERN THEORIES OF ANXIETY

1. SPINOZA: REASON OVERCOMING FEAR

2. PASCAL: ANXIETY AND THE INSUFFICIENCY OF REASON

3. KIERKEGAARD AND THE PROBLEM OF ANXIETY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Chapter 3 - ANXIETY INTERPRETED BIOLOGICALLY

1. THE STARTLE PATTERN

2. GOLDSTEIN: ANXIETY AS THE CATASTROPHIC REACTION

3. NEUROLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF ANXIETY

4. PSYCHOSOMATIC ASPECTS OF ANXIETY

Chapter 4 - ANXIETY INTERPRETED PSYCHOLOGICALLY

1. THE EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF CHILDREN'S FEARS

2. THE PROBLEM OF EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF ANXIETY

3. MOWRER: ANXIETY AND LEARNING THEORY

4. FREUD'S EVOLVING THEORIES OF ANXIETY

5. RANK: ANXIETY AND INDIVIDUATION

6. ADLER: ANXIETY AND INFERIORITY FEELINGS

7. JUNG: ANXIETY AND THE THREAT OF THE IRRATIONAL

8. HORNEY: ANXIETY AND CONFLICTING PERSONALITY TRENDS

9. SULLIVAN: ANXIETY AS APPREHENSION OF DISAPPROVAL IN INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS

Chapter 5 - ANXIETY INTERPRETED CULTURALLY

1 THE HISTORICAL DIMENSION OF ANXIETY-CREATING CULTURAL PATTERNS

2. COMPETITIVE INDIVIDUALISM EMERGING IN THE RENAISSANCE

3. TAWNEY: COMPETITIVE INDIVIDUALISM IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS

4. FROMM: INDIVIDUAL ISOLATION IN MODERN CULTURE

5. KARDINER: ANXIETY AND WESTERN MAN'S PSYCHOLOGICAL GROWTH PATTERN

6. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

Chapter 6 - SUMMARY AND SYNTHESIS OF THEORIES OF ANXIETY

1. THE NATURE OF ANXIETY AND ITS RELATION TO FEAR

2. ANXIETY AND CONFLICT

3. ANXIETY AND CULTURE

4. ANXIETY AND HOSTILITY

5. METHODS OF DEALING WITH ANXIETY

6. ANXIETY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SELF.

PART II - CLINICAL ANALYSIS OF ANXIETY

Chapter 7 - CASE STUDIES DEMONSTRATING ANXIETY

1. INTRODUCTION

2. BROWN: CONFLICT UNDERLYING SEVERE ANXIETY

3. NANCY: ANXIETY AND CONFLICTING ATTITUDES TOWARD THE MOTHER

4. HELEN: INTELLECTUALIZING AS A DEFENSE AGAINST THE ANXIETY-CREATING SITUATION

5. AGNES: ANXIETY RELATED TO HOSTILITY AND AGGRESSION

6. LOUISE: REJECTION BY MOTHER WITHOUT CONSEQUENT ANXIETY

7. BESSIE: REJECTION BY PARENTS WITHOUT CONSEQUENT ANXIETY

8. DOLORES: ANXIETY PANIC WHILE UNDER SEVERE THREAT

9. PHYLLIS: ABSENCE OF ANXIETY IN AN IMPOVERISHED PERSONALITY

10. FRANCES: ANXIETY AND UNSUCCESSFUL CONSTRICTION

11. CHARLOTTE: PSYCHOTIC DEVELOPMENTS OBVIATING ANXIETY

12. HESTER: ANXIETY RELATED TO DEFIANCE AND REBELLION

13. SARAH AND ADA: ABSENCE AND PRESENCE OF ANXIETY IN TWO NEGRO GIRLS

14. IRENE: ANXIETY RELATED TO OVERCONSCIENTIOUSNESS AND SHYNESS

Chapter 8 - CONCLUSIONS FROM THE CASE STUDIES

1. RELATION OF NEUROTIC FEARS TO UNDERLYING ANXIETY

2. CONFLICT UNDERLYING NEUROTIC ANXIETY

3. SOCIOECONOMIC CLASS AND NEUROTIC ANXIETY

4. INTERRELATION OF ANXIETY AND HOSTILITY

5. METHODS OF AVOIDING THE ANXIETY-CREATING SITUATION

6. RELATION BETWEEN ANXIETY AND IMPOVERISHMENT OF PERSONALITY

APPENDIX

ANXIETY CHECK-LIST NO. 1

ANXIETIES I HAD IN CHILDHOOD

ANXIETY CHECK-LIST NO. 2

PRESENT ANXIETIES

ANXIETY CHECK-LIST NO. 3

FUTURE ANXIETIES

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781786252098

1786252090

OCLC:

975222085