Anxiety and Fear Development: From the Psychoanalysis to the Neurobiological Approach
Geon Ho Bahn
Department of Psychiatry, Kyung Hee University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.- Abstract
- Anxiety and fear are emotions that are essential to protect an individual from threat and for reproduction, which is necessary for the preservation of the species. Freud’s anxiety theory has its roots primarily in the comprised formation of conflicts, which was based on the libido theory, and later, on the basis of signal anxiety theory, which was based on ego structures. It is known that according to Bowlby’s attachment theory, the quality of the infant’s attachment determines the level of his/her anxiety response later in life, and affects sociality and the formation of interpersonal relationships in adulthood. Although anxiety and fear are used to mean similar things, in animal experiments and human studies, correlations between brain development and anxiety and fear, and specific brain regions and related substances affecting the development of anxiety and fear are continuously being discovered. Such results may lead to the development of personalized, tailored treatments for anxiety and fear in normal and mentally disabled people.
- Keywords : Anxiety · Fear · Attachment · Treatment · Animal · Brain.
- October 2024, 35 (4)
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