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Chapter 7

CASE STUDIES DEMONSTRATING ANXIETY

Anxiety is the dynamic center of neuroses and thus we shall
have to deal with it all the time.-- Karen Horney, The Neurotic
Personality of Our Time.


1. INTRODUCTION
What We Seek to Discover. --The following case studies are
presented in the light of the summary and synthesis of anxiety
theory given in the preceding chapter. While no clinical case
can be placed on the Procrustean bed of our expectation that it
answer certain questions and no others; while, that is, each case
must be taken on its own merit so far as the yielding of data goes,
and should be approached in the open-minded mood typified by
the inquiry, "what has this particular case to teach us about
anxiety"?--nonetheless, our keeping certain more specific ques-
tions in mind as we investigate each case makes for greater clar-
ity and concreteness. We shall, therefore, here list some crucial
questions for the theory of anxiety to which special attention will
be paid in the subsequent case studies. The reader will note that
the areas in which these questions occur are parallel to the head-
ings in Chapter 6, "Summary and Synthesis of Theories of
Anxiety."
1. THE NATURE OF ANXIETY AND ITS RELATION TO
FEARS. The description of the subject's behavior and feelings
in anxiety, which throws phenomenological light on the nature
of anxiety, will of course occur as a matter of course in the dis-
cussion of each case. More specifically, we shall ask the ques-
tion: Can we ascertain whether specific fears are the foci of
underlying anxiety? There is a corollary to the above question

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Meaning of Anxiety. Contributors: Rollo May - author. Publisher: Ronald Press. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1950. Page Number: 237.
    
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