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Anxiety: Clarification, Critique and Update

Editor : Salman Akhtar, Editor : Mary Kay O'Neil

Reviews and Endorsements

‘Salman Akhtar and Mary Kay O'Neil have put together a unique volume on anxiety. They have enlisted distinguished contributors who approach this topic from varying perspectives. Thus matters of taxonomy, causation, accompanying fantasies, and defensive alterations of anxiety all feature in the pages of this book. It truly is a gift to the field, allowing us to find the latest on a most important topic.’
FRED BUSCH, Ph.D., Training and Supervising Analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, Author, A Fresh Look at Psychoanalytic Technique

'This book is a gem. It offers an exhaustive and fascinating discourse on anxiety in its myriad forms. Above all, the essays contained in it help clarify all sorts of theoretical and clinical ambiguities. Akhtar and O’Neil's book is an essential source of knowledge for a wide range of psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.'
CHRISTINE DUNBAR, M.D., Training and Supervising Analyst (retired), Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis, Co-author, One Hundred Years of Psychoanalysis: A Timeline (1900–2000)

‘This well-edited and written volume takes the reader on an enthralling journey through the theoretical and clinical terrain of anxiety in its many forms and dimensions, from its fin-de-siècle Freudian conceptual origins to contemporary questions on the treatment of climate-change and related socio-political anxieties. The book believe speaks wonderfully both to more and less seasoned psychoanalysts and psychotherapists – yet also to students across mental health disciplines and beyond (i.e., as an amateur musician, I adored reading a developmentally informed chapter and case-study focusing on performance anxiety).’
DANIEL S. SCHECHTER, M.D., Psychoanalyst, Child & Adolescent, Psychiatrist, and Professor, Lausanne University Hospital and Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Switzerland