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    Death anxiety is anxiety caused by thoughts of one's own death, and is also known as thanatophobia (fear of death). Individuals affected by this kind...
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  • Castration anxiety is an overwhelming fear of damage to, or loss of, the penis—a derivative of Sigmund Freud's theory of the castration complex, one of...
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    which divides anxiety and fear. Another description of anxiety is agony, dread, terror, or even apprehension. In positive psychology, anxiety is described...
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  • Terror management theory (category Death)
    Social Psychology. 95 (3): 524–541. doi:10.1037/a0012666. PMID 18729692. Bozo, Ö.; Tunca, A.; Şİmşek, Y. (2009). "The effect of death anxiety and age...
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  • Social anxiety is the anxiety and fear specifically linked to being in social settings (i.e., interacting with others). Some categories of disorders associated...
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  • Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a mental and behavioral disorder, specifically an anxiety disorder characterized by excessive, uncontrollable and...
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  • purpose is to avoid cognitive dissonance, or the mental discomfort and anxiety caused by a person having conflicting values, cognitions, emotions, beliefs...
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  • death is a "complete loss of subjective self-identity". The term is used in various intertwined contexts, with related meanings. Jungian psychology uses...
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    phobias, apeirophobia may be tied to mental health conditions such as anxiety disorders or obsessive-compulsive disorder. There is very little research...
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    Rollo May (category 1994 deaths)
    the natural world. Next, May praised the acceptance of normal anxiety within psychology. May, however, also emphasized the need to accept normal guilt...
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    The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin (Danish: Begrebet Angest) is a philosophical...
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    mental and behavioral disorder, specifically an anxiety disorder characterized by symptoms of anxiety in situations where the person perceives their environment...
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    Freud's psychoanalytic theories (category Freudian psychology)
    d. Cherry, K. Dream Interpretation.About psychology, n.d. Anxiety and Ego-Defense Mechanisms. (n.d.). Anxiety and Ego-Defense Mechanisms. Retrieved November...
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    "Generalized Anxiety Disorder". Psychology (second ed.). Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4292-3719-2. French JH, Hameed S (2022). "Illness Anxiety Disorder". StatPearls...
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  • Bipolar. Dr. Angela Neal-Barnett views psychology through a Black lens and dedicated her career to focusing on the anxiety of African American women. She founded...
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  • Neuroticism (category Anxiety)
    neuroticism are more likely than average to experience such feelings as anxiety, worry, fear, anger, frustration, envy, jealousy, pessimism, guilt, depressed...
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  • the mind seeks pleasure and avoids pain in his Project for a Scientific Psychology of 1895, as well as in the theoretical portion of The Interpretation of...
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  • Personality psychology is a branch of psychology that examines personality and its variation among individuals. It aims to show how people are individually...
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  • Abnormal psychology is the branch of psychology that studies unusual patterns of behavior, emotion, and thought, which could possibly be understood as...
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  • disorders caused by past anxiety, often that has been repressed. In recent history, the term has been used to refer to anxiety-related conditions more...
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  • manage death anxiety. Some people, however, will engage in hedonic pursuits like drugs, alcohol, and entertainment to escape their death anxiety - often...
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    Steven Reiss (category 2016 deaths)
    studies to four topics in psychology: anxiety disorders, developmental disabilities, intrinsic motivation, and the psychology of religion. He was born...
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  • Fear of intimacy (category Anxiety disorders)
    Fear of intimacy is generally a social phobia and anxiety disorder resulting in difficulty forming close relationships with another person. The term can...
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  • Separation anxiety disorder (SAD) is an anxiety disorder in which an individual experiences excessive anxiety regarding separation from home and/or from...
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  • modifications made by Freud in Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety formed the basis of a psychoanalytic psychology interested in the nature and functions of the ego...
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  • unconscious psychological operation that functions to protect a person from anxiety-producing thoughts and feelings related to internal conflicts and outer...
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    Mortality salience (category Death)
    attachment". Awareness of Dying Being-toward-death Birthday effect Cognitive dissonance Death anxiety Existential psychology Melancholia Memento mori, the medieval...
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  • chosen by his original translators and have remained in use. In the ego psychology model of the psyche, the id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual desires;...
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    Angst (category Anxiety)
    Angst is fear or anxiety (anguish is its Latinate equivalent, and the words anxious and anxiety are of similar origin). The dictionary definition for angst...
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  • existence including death, freedom, responsibility, and the meaning of life. Instead of regarding human experiences such as anxiety, alienation and depression...
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