The term anxiety is currently used in psychology and psychiatry to refer to at least three related, yet logically different, constructs. Although most commonly used to describe an unpleasant emotional state or condition, anxiety also denotes a complex...

Anxiety A condition of persistent nervousness, stress, and worry that is triggered by anticipation of future events, memories of past events, or ruminations about the self Stimulated by real or imagined dangers, anxiety affects people of all ages and...

A term to describe the physiological and psychological response to a perceived threat that can represent either a biologically appropriate adaptive response to impending challenge or a pathological state whereby there is a contextually and temporally...

Anxiety refers to an unpleasant emotional state, a response to anticipated threat or to specific psychiatric disorders. In anxiety, the anticipated threat is often imagined. Anxiety consists of physiological and psychological features. The...

Anxiety is a physiological state characterized by cognitive, somatic, emotional, and behavioral components (Seligman, Walker & Rosenhan, 2001). These components combine to create the feelings that we typically recognize as fear, apprehension, or...

S. RACHMAN East Sussex: Psychology Press Ltd., 1998, x + 179 pp. (ISBN 0-86377-802-X, Cdn.$48.25, Softcover) Reviewed by MYLES GENEST In the last decade or two, the pre-eminence of mood disorders in research seems to have been displaced by anxiety disorders. In part, this...

Alain de Botton. Status Anxiety. New York: Pantheon, 2004. Alain de Botton defines "status anxiety" as "A worry so pernicious as to be capable of ruining extended stretches of our lives, that we are in danger of failing to conform to the ideals...

On Jan. 31, 2005, the BBC made it official: On the evening news, the anchor gravely announced the publication of Ian McEwan's new novel, Saturday, and proclaimed the author "the international voice of British fiction." As far as anyone in London publishing circles can remember,...

Caribbean islanders still get night sweats recalling the dark hours in 2005 when Hurricane Wilma's shrieking gales and drenching rain unearthed caskets from cemeteries, tossing corpses onto porches and roofs in the Bahamas.Forecasters predict warmer waters will bring more tropical storms than normal this Atlantic...

Profectionism and need for approval drive much of human anxiety.