Anxiety and Neurosis
Anxiety and Neurosis (Maresfield Library) Charles Rycroft,
Publisher: Karnac Books
ISBN: 0946439524
Edition: Paperback; 1990-12-01
Summary:
"Anxiety and Neurosis" is based on adult experiences rather than the
speculative theories of infantile instinctual development. 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.
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