The Meaning Of Anxiety

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The Meaning Of Anxiety

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 â€œage of anxiety.â€ 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 writerâ€™s goal will have been achieved.

It is of course clear that anxiety is not merely an abstract theoretical concept, any more than swimming is to a person whose boat has capsized a mile from shore. A discussion of anxiety that was not geared to immediate human problems would not be worth either writing or reading. Hence the theoretical synthesis has been tested by investigation of actual anxiety situations and selected case studies to discover what concrete evidence there may be to support the authorâ€™s conclusions as to what anxiety means and what purpose it serves in human experience.

Country	USA
Author	Rollo May Ph.D.
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	PPP1 - Kindle Formatted
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Pickle Partners Publishing
Manufacturer	Pickle Partners Publishing
NumberOfPages	425
PublicationDate	2015-01-26
Publisher	Pickle Partners Publishing
ReleaseDate	2015-01-26
Studio	Pickle Partners Publishing

The Meaning Of Anxiety

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