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Definition of Anxiety. Affectivity, affect, and emotional expression. The physical accompaniments of affectivity. The James-Lange Theory and Cannon's and Sherrington's Views. The anatomical basis of affectivity. The conditioned reflexes. Causes influencing affectivity. Definition of anxiety.
Causes of Anxiety. Disturbances of the soma and general chemism, organic diseases of viscera and brain, hyperthyroidism and alcohol, and disturbances of the act of copulation. Reactivity to situational difficulties. Unconscious conditions; the concept of the unconscious-dynamic and of conflicts, personality, and symptom formation; phantasies and regression. The sexual instinct anxieties: incest and Oedipus complex and castration fears related to masturbation, homosexuality, and impotence. Ego and herd instinct anxieties.
Clinical Aspects of Anxiety and Associated Symptoms. Normal anxiety. In somatic diseases, toxic conditions and in organic brain diseases. In anxiety neuroses and in reactive neuroses. In psycho-neuroses: the occurrences and phantasies of early childhood, the primal scene and other incidental occurrences and the neurotic personality. In hysteria: diffuse anxiety, phobias, conversions, and episodic phenomena. In compulsive and obsessive states. In hypochondria and neurasthenia. In psychoses: adolescent, involution melancholia, depressions, schizophrenia, infective-exhaustive, and in organic brain disease.
Diagnosis and Prognosis.
Treatment.
Summary.