PSY240H5 Chapter 10-11: Chapters 10 and 11
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Chapters 10 and 11: anxiety and somatic disorders. Effective state where an individual feels threatened by the potential occurrence of a future negative event. Fear is a more primitive emotion and occurs in response to a real/perceived current threat. Panic is very similar to fear, making these 2 emotional states difficult to distinguish, however, panic may be triggered in the absence of provoking event. During the 19th and early 20th centuries many psychological problems were described as neuroses. Until 1980, anxiety disorders were classified with dissociative and somatoform disorders under the heading of neuroses. Freud was one of the earliest theorists to focus on anxiety and to recognize the difference between objective fears and neurotic anxiety. Research conducted over the past few decades has greatly expanded our understanding of the nature of anxiety and its treatment. Major models today are behavioural and cognitive interventions. Amount of fear experienced in proportion to the threat.
