An edition of The meaning of anxiety
(2015)
The meaning of anxiety
Revised edition.
by Rollo May
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From the Publisher: 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. In the revised edition of this now-classic study, the distinguished author of Love and Will deepens his exploration into anxiety theory. Dr. May challenges the idea that mental health means living without anxiety, and he explores anxiety's potential for self-realization as well as ways to avoid its destructive aspects.
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The meaning of anxiety
2015, W. W. Norton & Company
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Table of Contents
Foreword to the first edition
Foreword to the revised edition
Acknowledgments
pt. I. Modern interpretations of anxiety
1. Anxiety in mid-twentieth century
In literature
In social studies
In the political scene
In philosophy and theology
In psychology
Purpose of this book
2. Philosophical interpreters of anxiety
Spinoza : reason overcoming fear
Pascal : the inadequacy of reason
Kierkegaard : anxiety in the nineteenth century
3. Anxiety interpreted biologically
The startle pattern
Anxiety and the catastrophic reaction
Anxiety and the loss of the world
Origins of anxiety and fear as seen by Goldstein
The capacity to bear anxiety
Numerological and physiological aspects of anxiety
Perception of danger
Balance in the autonomic system
Voodoo death
Psychosomatic aspects of anxiety
An example : gastric functions
The case of Tom
Culture and the meaning of disease
4. Anxiety interpreted psychologically
Do animals have anxiety?
The study of children's fears
Maturation in anxiety and fears
Fears masking anxiety
A note on the stress and anxiety
Recent research on anxiety
Anxiety and learning theory
Personal comments
5. Anxiety interpreted by the psychotherapists
Freud's evolving theories of anxiety
Anxiety and repression
Origins of anxiety as seen by Freud
Trends in Freud's theories of anxiety
Rank : anxiety and individuation
Adler : anxiety and inferiority feelings
Jung : anxiety and the threat of the irrational
Horney : anxiety and hostility
Sullivan : anxiety as apprehension of disapproval
6. Anxiety interpreted culturally
The importance of the historical dimension
Individualism in the Renaissance
Competitive individualism in work and wealth
Fromm : individual isolation in modern culture
Anxiety and the market place
Mechanisms of escape
Kardiner : Western man's growth pattern
7. Summary and synthesis of theories of anxiety
The nature of anxiety
Normal and neurotic anxiety
Origins of anxiety
Maturation of the capacity for anxiety
Anxiety and fear
Anxiety and conflict
Anxiety and hostility
Culture and community.
pt. II. Clinical analysis of anxiety
8. Case studies demonstrating anxiety
What we seek to discover
Harold Brown : conflict underlying servere anxiety
Conclusions
9. The study of unmarried mothers
Methods used
Helen : intellectualizing as a defense against anxiety
Nancy : expectations at war with reality
Agnes : anxiety related to hostility and aggression
Louise : rejection by mother without anxiety
Bessie : rejection by parents without anxiety
Dolores : anxiety panic while under severe threat
Phyllis : absence of anxiety in an impoverished personality
Frances : constriction versus the creative impulse
Charlotte : psychotic developments as an escape from anxiety
Hester : anxiety, defiance, and rebellion
Sarah and Ada : absence and presence of anxiety in two black women
Irene : anxiety, overconscientiousness, and shyness
10. Gleanings from the case studies
Anxiety underlying fear
Conflict : source of anxiety
Rejection by parents and anxiety
Cleavage between expectations and reality
Neurotic anxiety and the middle class
pt. III. The management of anxiety
11. Methods of dealing with anxiety
In extreme situations
Destructive ways
Constructive ways
12. Anxiety and the development of the self
Anxiety and the impoverishment of personality
Creativity, intelligence, and anxiety
The realization of the self
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
Edition Notes
Revised edition originally published in 1977.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-420) and index.
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