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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
[[Sigmund Freud]] recognized anxiety as a "signal of danger" and a cause of "defensive behavior". He believed we acquire anxious feelings through classical conditioning and traumatic experiences. | [[Sigmund Freud]] recognized [[anxiety]] as a "signal of danger" and a cause of "[[Defensive medicine|defensive]] behavior". He believed we acquire [[anxious]] feelings through [[classical conditioning]] and traumatic experiences. | ||
We maintain anxiety through operant conditioning; when we see or encounter something associated with a previous traumatic experience, anxious feelings resurface. We feel temporarily relieved when we avoid situations which make us anxious, but this only increases anxious feelings the next time we are in the same position, and we will want to escape the situation again and therefore will not make any progress against the anxiety. | We maintain [[anxiety]] through [[operant conditioning]]; when we see or encounter something associated with a previous traumatic experience, anxious feelings resurface. We feel temporarily relieved when we avoid situations which make us anxious, but this only increases anxious feelings the next time we are in the same position, and we will want to escape the situation again and therefore will not make any progress against the anxiety. | ||
==Historical perspective== | ==Historical perspective== | ||
* In 1621, [[Robert Burton (scholar)|Robert Burton]] described the [[symptoms]] of [[anxiety]] attacks in socially anxious people in his book The [[Anatomy]] of Melancholy 1: “Many lamentable effects this [[fear]] causeth in man, as to be [[Red-Al|red]], [[Pale skin color|pale]], [[Tremble dance|tremble]], [[sweat]]; it makes sudden [[cold]] and [[heat]] come over all the body, [[palpitation]] of the [[heart]], [[syncope]], etc. It amazeth many [[men]] that are to speak or show themselves in [[Public health|public]].” | |||
** In the same book, Burton cited [[Hippocrates]]' writing on one of his [[patients]], who apparently suffered from what we would call “[[social anxiety disorder]]” today. <ref name="pmid26487813">{{cite journal |vauthors=Bandelow B, Michaelis S |title=Epidemiology of anxiety disorders in the 21st century |journal=Dialogues Clin Neurosci |volume=17 |issue=3 |pages=327–35 |year=2015 |pmid=26487813 |pmc=4610617 |doi= |url=}}</ref> | |||
* [[Sigmund Freud]] recognized [[anxiety]] as a "signal of danger" and a cause of "defensive behavior". He believed we acquire anxious feelings through [[classical conditioning]] and [[Traumatic brain injury|traumatic]] experiences. | |||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1];Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Vindhya BellamKonda, M.B.B.S [2]
Overview
Sigmund Freud recognized anxiety as a "signal of danger" and a cause of "defensive behavior". He believed we acquire anxious feelings through classical conditioning and traumatic experiences.
We maintain anxiety through operant conditioning; when we see or encounter something associated with a previous traumatic experience, anxious feelings resurface. We feel temporarily relieved when we avoid situations which make us anxious, but this only increases anxious feelings the next time we are in the same position, and we will want to escape the situation again and therefore will not make any progress against the anxiety.
Historical perspective
- In 1621, Robert Burton described the symptoms of anxiety attacks in socially anxious people in his book The Anatomy of Melancholy 1: “Many lamentable effects this fear causeth in man, as to be red, pale, tremble, sweat; it makes sudden cold and heat come over all the body, palpitation of the heart, syncope, etc. It amazeth many men that are to speak or show themselves in public.”
- In the same book, Burton cited Hippocrates' writing on one of his patients, who apparently suffered from what we would call “social anxiety disorder” today. [1]
- Sigmund Freud recognized anxiety as a "signal of danger" and a cause of "defensive behavior". He believed we acquire anxious feelings through classical conditioning and traumatic experiences.