We might feel like these behaviors are protecting us, but they sometimes cross over into something problematic, or what ...

Freud believed complete elimination of neurosis was neither possible nor desirable. He saw value in anxiety and internal conflict - what he called "ordinary unhappiness" - as vital for personal ...

Patients with anxiety neurosis show an excessive rise in lactate, a normal metabolic product. A double-blind experiment has shown that anxiety symptoms and attacks can be induced by infusions of ...

As if all this weren’t enough, there is also a booming pharmaceutical market to suppress anxiety, neuroticism and quash negative emotions altogether. Throughout the industrialized world ...