title: [Anxiety inhibitions].
abstract: At the border of normality and of pathology, anxious inhibitions can have a double function either positive or negative in the psychic balance of the subject. A distinction can be made between: -- the paroxystic anxious inhibitions and stage-fright is a good example of defensive part in front of a menance directed toward the integrity of the Ego, -- and lasting anxious inhibitions, such as intellectual and sexual inhibitions that can induce a true limitation of personality. A psychological and psychopharmacological parallel is evoked about alcohol, a "polyvalent psychotropic drug".
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D001519:Behavior / Q000187:drug effects; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D000431:Ethanol / Q000494:pharmacology; D006801:Humans; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological
chemical_list: D000431:Ethanol
vernacular_title: Les inhibitions anxieuses.