Anxiety as symptom and signal
By: edited by Steven P. Roose, Robert A. Glick.
Contributors: Roose, Steven P., 1948-; Glick, Robert A., 1941-
Publisher: Analytic Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Hillsdale, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Anxiety; Psychotherapy; Anxiety; Psychoanalytic Therapy
Description: The concept of anxiety has long held a central place in psychoanalytic theories of mind and treatment. Yet, in recent years, data from the neurosciences and from pharmacological studies have posed a compelling challenge to psychoanalytic models of anxiety. One major outcome of these studies is the realization that anxiety both organizes and disorganizes, that it can be both signal and symptom.

In Anxiety as Symptom and Signal, editors Steven Roose and Robert Glick have brought together distinguished contributors to address these different dimensions of our contemporary understanding of anxiety. A section of original papers on "Anxiety as Symptom" covers evolutionary, neuroanatomical, genetic, and developmental perspectives.

A complementary section on "Anxiety as Signal" focuses on the meanings and functions of anxiety in the clinical process; contributions address anxiety in its ego-psychological, intersubjective, and relational dimensions.

This illuminating, readable collection will broaden clinicians' awareness of the diverse research findings that now inform our understanding of anxiety. No less importantly, it will deepen their appreciation of the richly variegated ways that anxiety can shape, and be shaped by, the clinical process.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.