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Reducing State Anxiety Using Working Memory Maintenance
Published on: July 19, 2017
[Anxiety: personality and relationship. Some considerations]
Melania Bonello1, Michela Zaccagni, Mario Vitali
1Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche, Psichiatriche e Riabilitative dell’Età Evolutiva, Sapienza Università di Roma. melania.bonello@tin.it
Abstract:
Anxiety is a well defined symptom in psychiatric field, but also a concept that refers to the theoretical and epi-stemological visions of the theories on the psychical functioning. The present work shows, in the first part, a brief description of the evolution of the anxiety concept, highlighting the several meanings of this word; particularly, is wanted to show off how in the modern psychodynamic points of view anxiety is tightly linked to the role of the "relationship" in the "personality forming". The second part shows a synthetic historical picture of the main psychoanalytic theories on this topic.
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