PSY 11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Viktor Frankl, Panic Attack, Logotherapy

• School: Kutztown University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 11
• Professor: Manos Akillas

Document Summary

Anxiety is one of the most common experiences that creates psychological problems for people. As the person begins to feel nervous, they attach a negative meaning to the experience. People then begin to be afraid of the nervous-ness (the fear of fear anticipatory anxiety) There is a diference between anxiety and the fear of the anxiety that comes from attaching a negative meaning to it. When we attach this negative meaning to anxiety we try and avoid it. People put an efort to overcome the anxiety by being calm and relaxed. Causes the person to experience the opposite of what they want to experience. When a person tries to calm themselves and relax, they get more and tense and anxious. As a result anxiety becomes a vicious circle (this cycle starts because the person attaches a negative meaning to experience) Trying deliberately to experience something negative, and end up that problem.