Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library

Fear, a dark shadow across our life span, edited by Salman Akhtar

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-238) and index

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Fear

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edited by Salman Akhtar

a dark shadow across our life span

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

Fear, phobia, and cowardice / Salman Akhtar -- Fear of breakdown / Elaine Zickler -- Fear of aloneness / Peggy B. Hutson -- Fear of intimacy / Susan Kavaler-Adler -- Fear of injury / Jerome S. Blackman -- Fear of success / Andrew Klafter -- Fear of death / Calvin A. Colarusso -- Fear across the life span / M. Hossein Etezady

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