Anxietate – definitie
Anxietate – status caracterizat prin teamă (aprehensiune), neliniște și frică exagerată însoțită de obicei de simptomalogie somatică: tensiune, tahicardie, dispnee.
a. de castrare – teama de a pierde organele genitale sau funcția sexuală, ca rezultat al unor obsesii sau înclinații sexuale agresive, denumit și complex de castrare.
a. de separare – sentiment de pericol, teamă și întristare față de despărțirea de o persoană apropiată.
Anxiety – fear or apprehension or dread of impending danger and accompanied by restlessness, tension, tachycardia, and dyspnea unattached to a clearly identifiable stimulus.
a. attack – an acute episode of anxiety.
castration a. (castration complex) – 1. a child’s fear of injury to the genitals by the parent of the same sex as punishment for unconscious guilt over oedipal feelings; 2. fantasied loss of the penis by a female or fear of its actual loss by a male; 3. unconscious fear of injury from those in authority.
free-floating a. – in psychoanalysis, a pervasive unrealistic expectation unattached to a clearly formulated concept or object of fear; observed particularly in a. neurosis and may be seen in some cases of latent schizophrenia.
noetic a. – in existential psychotherapy, a. caused by confusion or loss of meaning in life.
separation a. – a child’s apprehension or fear associated with removal from or loss of a parent or significant other.
situation a. – a. related to current life problems.
