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Fear - Softcover

 
9781782200680: Fear
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1782200681 ISBN 13: 9781782200680
Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

Beginning with Freud's celebrated case of Little Hans, psychoanalysts and psychotherapists have been intrigued with the topic of fear. Eclipsed in theoretical writings by the term 'anxiety', fear remains a pervasive expression in day to day clinical work. Patients constantly talk about it. One implores that we cure him of his fear of dogs. Another offers the fear of aloneness as the rationale of her staying in a bad marriage. Yet another avoids all athletic activity due to the fear of physical injury. And a fourth one lives in utter denial of passing time to avoid facing his fear of death. Despite its ubiquitous presence, fear has received little direct attention in psychoanalytic literature. This book aims to fill this lacuna. It explicates various intensities of fear, e.g. apprehension, dread, panic, and terror. It delineates the boundaries between fear and anxiety and demonstrates how phobic states constitute an admixture of these two emotions.

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About the Author

Salman Akhtar

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1782200681
ISBN 13 
9781782200680
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
264
Editor
Akhtar Salman