Neurotic anxiety is the result of inner conflict and repression.
(36) In a therapy relationship, the therapist's awareness of the presence of existential anxiety is crucial to helping the client untangle it from
neurotic anxiety and then gradually transform it so that it will not feed the
neurotic anxiety.
Any therapy that focuses only on
neurotic anxiety, ignoring the existential anxiety behind it, cuts people off from the basic way of resolving
neurotic anxiety — by confronting and transforming existential anxiety into the energy of becoming!
Psychopathology and
the neurotic anxiety that fuels it are abortive attempts to cope with existential anxiety.
A man is oppressed by its weight on his back only when his back also bears a heavy burden of
neurotic anxiety.
Unlike
neurotic anxiety, there is no psychotherapeutic answer to existential anxiety.
Existential anxiety is unneurotic, yet it is the basis or ground of
all neurotic anxiety.
Neurotic anxiety is thus a mechanism for keeping unacceptable feelings and drives out of awareness.
Neurotic anxiety is intermixed and increased by historical anxiety, that arising from the crisis of our time.
It is the burden of
neurotic anxiety which the psychotherapist often is able to reduce.
Fixation in the oedipal stage may, for example, result in a «Mama's boy» or in
neurotic anxieties about sex and fear of closeness to either sex.
Not exact matches
To illustrate, some people (called «psychoneurotics» in traditional psychiatric nomenclature) are tyrannized by cruel superegos (hairshirt consciences), which produce
neurotic guilt and
anxiety.
There are three kinds of
anxiety involved in the etiology of alcoholism:
neurotic, historical, and existential.
The fear of loving another or of being loved by another in
anxiety for loss of self is a common
neurotic symptom.
Neurotic and existential
anxiety are intertwined in the problems that bring people to therapy.
Pathological (
neurotic)
anxiety arises when contradictory impulses, desires or needs clamor simultaneously for expression or satisfaction.
When existential
anxiety is not handled in this way, it helps to create
neurotic problems.
What often happens in such cases is that the person's
neurotic behavior is increased by the
anxiety which rejection arouses.
But the alternative of giving Scotland the ammunition to leave the UK, turning London from the booming city of Europe to a
neurotic basket case and fuelling the already deep sense of fuming
anxiety of those that supported Remain is much worse.
IF YOU are prone to
anxiety, it's time to chill out or your
neurotic personality could triple your chances of developing asthma.
Statistically significant hazard ratios for specific groups of psychiatric disorders were found for schizophrenia and psychoses (1.27, 1.16 - 1.38), affective disorders (1.32, 1.25 - 1.39),
anxiety and other
neurotic disorders (1.37, 1.32 - 1.42), mental and behavioural syndromes including eating disorders (1.13, 1.04 - 1.24), mental retardation (1.28, 1.17 - 1.40), mental development disorders including autism spectrum disorders (1.22, 1.16 - 1.28), and behavioural and emotional disorders including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)(1.40, 1.34 - 1.46), when compared with rates in naturally conceived children.
Women suffer more from
anxiety disorders than men do, and studies show that excessively anxious (or highly
neurotic) women report less satisfaction with
The unprecedented frequency of clinical
anxiety disorders arises out of a
neurotic stew of economic uncertainty and our increasingly hectic day - to - day lives.
A Shepherd with no demands on his time will use his excess energy to get into mischief - destructive behavior, obsessive barking,
anxiety and
neurotic behavior, and aggression towards other dogs, including fear - biting and lunging, are all characteristic behaviors of a Shepherd who doesn't have enough to do.
Some dogs that bark excessively are victims of separation
anxiety, a malady that causes various
neurotic behaviors when dogs are left alone.
My children moved back home; one with a very high energy, never exercised, totally
neurotic Weimaraner, and the other with a young unaltered
anxiety ridden, insecure 10mo old Pit Bull terrier.
«If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips,» wrote Freud over a century ago, perhaps of some calm - faced
neurotic drumming
anxiety into an armrest.
The New York Post called the act «a monstrosity», «a wretched repudiation of democratic principles,» while The Nation accused Democratic liberals of a «
neurotic, election - year
anxiety to escape the charge of being «soft on Communism» even at the expense of sacrificing constitutional rights.»
A voter deemed
neurotic might be shown a gun - rights commercial featuring burglars breaking into a home, rather than a defense of the Second Amendment; political ads warning of the dangers posed by the Islamic State could be targeted directly at voters prone to
anxiety, rather than wasted on those identified as optimistic.
Conditions that would formerly have been described as
neurotic are now found in five Axis I classifications:
anxiety disorders, somatoform disorders, dissociative disorders, mood disorders, and sexual disorders.
Primary outcomes: overall symptoms (positive, negative, and
neurotic symptoms combined); depression /
anxiety; negative and positive symptoms; overall functioning (combination of function scores from measures such as the Global Assessment Scale and Global Assessment of Functioning scale); remission.
If one were to look at Eysenck's dimensions of extraversion and neuroticism in relation to Gray's dimensions of impulsivity and
anxiety, one would see that persons who are highly extraverted and a bit
neurotic are the most impulsive.