PSY 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
28 Apr 2016
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Fear: the cns physiological and emotional response to a serious threat to one"s well-being. Feel tense and edgy as if you expect something unpleasant to happen. Anxiety: the cns physiological and emotional response to a vague sense of threat or danger. Vague sense of being in danger that causes increase in breathing, muscular tension, perspiration etc. Anxiety disorders are the most common mental disorders in the us, about. One of the most powerful is poverty as well as race. African americans are 30% more likely than white americans to suffer from the disorder: psychodynamic. Children experience realistic anxiety when they face actual danger, neurotic anxiety when they are repeatedly prevented from expressing their id complexes, and moral anxiety when they are punished or threatened for expressing their id impulses. Most believe that the disorder can be traced to inadequacies in early relationships between children and their parents: humanistic. Arises when people stop looking at themselves honestly and acceptingly: cognitive.
