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Fear : a dark shadow across our life span / edited by Salman Akhtar.

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Fear : a dark shadow across our life span / edited by Salman Akhtar.
Publication
London : Karnac Books, 2014.

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Akhtar, Salman, 1946 July 31-
Description
xviii, 246 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
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 such 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. The book also deals with phobic character and the personality trait of cowardice. Individual chapters are devoted to six main fears of life that arise sequentially over the course of psychic development.
Alternative Title
Dark shadow across our life span
Subject
  • Psychoanalytic Therapy
  • Phobic Disorders > therapy
  • Phobic Disorders > psychology
  • Anxiety > therapy
  • Anxiety > psychology
  • Fear > psychology
  • Fear
  • Phobic Disorders
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Machine generated contents note: PROLOGUE -- ch. One Fear, phobia, and cowardice / Salman Akhtar -- SIX MAIN FEARS OF OUR LIVES -- ch. Two Fear of breakdown / Elaine Zickler -- ch. Three Fear of aloneness / Peggy B. Hutson -- ch. Four Fear of intimacy / Susan Kavaler-Adler -- ch. Five Fear of injury / Jerome S. Blackman -- ch. Six Fear of success / Andrew Klafter -- ch. Seven Fear of death / Calvin A. Colarusso -- EPILOGUE -- ch. Eight Fear across the life span / M. Hossein Etezady.
ISBN
  • 9781782200680
  • 1782200681
OCLC
875345777
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library