The Anxious Human Being by Brbel Frischmann - 9783662722367

The Anxious Human BeingFear, Anxieties, Anxiety and Their Meaning\nAuthor(s): Brbel Frischmann\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG, Germany\nImprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K\nISBN-13: 9783662722367, 978-3662722367\nSynopsis\nAnxiety accompanies us whenever and wherever we are. It is part of being human. Humans are creatures of anxiety, and this shapes their relationship to the world, to others, and to themselves. In order to highlight the different ways in which anxiety manifests, a distinction is proposed between three basic functions: affective fear, felt anxieties, and mental anxiety. Each represents a specific form of vital danger management, encompassing not only physical protection functions but also the mental anticipation of possible risks and threats. However, anxietyparticularly in the form of emotional experiencescan become imbalanced, be experienced as distressing, and even become pathologic.