Explaining Anxiety

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In Anxiety as a signal, symptom, and syndrome, we begin to further understand the anxiety through different perspectives. To begin with, we learn the three most relevant models of the concept of signal anxiety, which are the Freudian structural or ego psychological, the object relations and the self-psychology. The Freudian structural or ego psychological model is a representation of the ego's failure to adapt to the demands of reality, both internal and external. The object relations model states that the way people relate to others and situations in the adult lives is due to family experiences during infancy. Self-psychology and dangers of the self, speaks about understanding individuals from within experiences. Overall, we learn that the

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