title: [Anxiety: personality and relationship. Some considerations].
abstract: Anxiety is a well defined symptom in psychiatric field, but also a concept that refers to the theoretical and epi-stemological visions of the theories on the psychical functioning. The present work shows, in the first part, a brief description of the evolution of the anxiety concept, highlighting the several meanings of this word; particularly, is wanted to show off how in the modern psychodynamic points of view anxiety is tightly linked to the role of the "relationship" in the "personality forming". The second part shows a synthetic historical picture of the main psychoanalytic theories on this topic.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche, Psichiatriche e Riabilitative dell’Età Evolutiva, Sapienza Università di Roma. melania.bonello@tin.it
authors.forename: Melania
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bonello
authors.forename: Michela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zaccagni
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vitali
authors.forename: Lionello
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Petruccioli
authors.forename: Franca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Aceti
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010551:Personality