of symptoms, the causes of behavior, and the repressed materials that interfere
with healthy functioning. It is to be noted, however, that intellectual insight
alone does not resolve the symptom. The client’s need to cling to old patterns
(repetition) must be confronted by working through transference distortions, a
process discussed later in this chapter.
Anxiety
Also essential to the psychoanalytic approach is its concept of anxiety. Anxiety
is a feeling of dread that results from repressed feelings, memories, desires,
and experience that emerge to the surface of awareness. It can be considered as
a state of tension that motivates us to do something. It develops out of a confl ict
among the id, ego, and superego over control of the available psychic energy.
The function of anxiety is to warn of impending danger
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