1st Edition

Fear A Dark Shadow Across Our Life Span

Edited By Salman Akhtar Copyright 2014
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

Beginning with Freud's celebrated case of Little Hans, psychoanalysts and psychotherapists have been intrigued with the topic of fear. Eclipsed in theoretical writings by the term 'anxiety', fear remains a pervasive expression in day to day clinical work. Patients constantly talk about it. One implores that we cure him of his fear of dogs. Another offers the fear of aloneness as the rationale of... Read more
Introduction , Prologue , Fear, phobia, and cowardice , Six Main Fears of Our Lives , Fear of breakdown , Fear of aloneness , Fear of intimacy , Fear of injury , Fear of success , Fear of death , Epilogue , Fear across the life span

Biography

Salman Akhtar