PSY 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Anxiety Disorder, Jackie Gleason, Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder
Document Summary
Of all the anxiety disorders phobia is most common in a year 1/10. Phobias are limiting but also embarrassing many just live with it in secret. Specific object or situation avoid or endure with great distress. Common examples: blood, heights, insects, snakes injections, germs, closed places, bridges, flying. Agoraphobia: - fear of leaving the house - 2. 7 to 5. 8 % of population, but. 60% of the phobias treated because it is so debilitating. Usually begins with a panic attack (define) and the diagnosis is panic disorder with agoraphobia. : fear of one or more social or performance situations. Usually starts in teens and will get worse if not treated. Analytic: repression of an impulse that causes fear and displacement of the fear to an object that has some connection , perhaps symbolic. More general - repression of some aspect of self or past experience. Arieti parents betray trust > general fear of others.
