PSYC 3390 Lecture Notes - Psychological Repression, Nomic, Basal Ganglia

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3390
• Professor: Mary Manson

Document Summary

Anxiety disorders affect approximately 25 to 30% of the population at some point in their lives. Anxiety disorders are the most common category of psychological disorders in canada in a 12 month period, 16% of women and 9% of suffer from at least 1 anxiety disorder. Anxiety disorders affect more than 4 million canadians in any given year. Historically, cases of anxiety disorders were considered to be classic examples of neu- rotic behaviour. Although neurotic behaviour is maladaptive and self-defeating, a neurotic person is not out of touch with reality, incoherent, or dangers to freud, neuroses were psychological disorders that resulted when intrapsychic con- flict produced significant anxiety. Historically, the most common way of distinguishing between fear and anxiety has been whether there is a clear and obvious source of danger that would be regarded as real by most people. When the source of danger is obvious, the experienced emotion has been called fear.