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The meaning of anxiety

Thesis--Columbia University. / Without thesis statement. Bibliography: p. 361-367 -- 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. 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 writer's goal will have been achieved. For those interested in a comparative survey of modern schools of psychothe. Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:OCLC/oai:xtcat.oclc.org:OCLCNo/643943985
Date January 1900
CreatorsMay, Rollo
PublisherNew York Ronald Press Co.
Source SetsOCLC
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
SourceVolltext Available via EBSCOhost

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