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adaptive behaviour
adult anxiety research
affective disorders
American Psychiatric Association
Author_Charles Rycroft
British Psycho Analytical Society
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clinical psychopathology
Contemporary Society
Daily Treatment Sessions
defences
emotional regulation
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G. M. Carstairs
General Biology
hysterical
Hysterical Defences
infantile
Insufficient Diagnosis
Manic Depressive Psychosis
Mastery Response
Melancholic Depression
neurotic
Neurotic Anxiety
Neurotic Depression
Neurotic Guilt
Neurotic Passivity
obsessional
Obsessional Defence
Obsessional Neurosis
phenomena
phobic
Phobic Defences
Psycho Analytical Theory
Psycho Pathology
psychodynamic mechanisms
Sane Part
schizoid
Schizoid Defences
Secret Image
stress response theory
Submissive Defence
trauma
traumatic
Wife's Health
Wife’s Health
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780367099589
- Weight: 480g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Anxiety may be debilitating or stimulating; it can result in neurotic symptoms or in improved, heightened performance in an actor or athlete. It is something every human being has experienced. As Professor G. M. Carstairs points out in his Foreword: 'During the course of the twentieth century we have found it progressively easier to concede that we are all to often swayed by emotion rather than reason. We have come to recognize the symptoms of neurotically ill patients are only an exaggeration of experiences common to us all, and hence that the unraveling of the psychodynamics of neurosis can teach us more about ourselves'. Although Charles Rycroft is also a psychoanalyst, it is as a biologist that he has made this study of anxiety, the three basic responses to it - attack, flight or submission - and the obsessional, phobic and schizoid and hysterical defenses. Written in precise but everyday language, Anxiety and Neurosis is based on adult experiences rather than the speculative theories of infantile instinctual development. Its clarity and authority can only add to Dr Rycroft's established international reputation.
Charles Rycroft
