title: The psychoanalytic view of phobias. Part I: Freud's theories of phobias and anxiety.
abstract: This paper initiates a series of communications on psychoanalytic and current psychiatric approaches to the understanding and treatment of phobic syndromes with a review and discussion of Freud's evolving ideas on phobias and anxiety. A list of issues that any theory of phobic syndromes must address is compiled on the basis of Freud's work.
authors.affiliation: Los Angeles Center for Psychoanalytic Research, CA 90049.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Compton
mesh_terms: D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*