Fear, Anxiety, and Phobia: A New Theoretical Approach Beyond Freud, Watson, and the DSM

This groundbreaking book offers a comprehensive new theoretical framework for understanding fear, anxiety, and phobia through the lens of rationality. Challenging the fragmented landscape of fear and anxiety research, it exposes fundamental contradictions among existing theories and their failure to provide coherent explanations for these pervasive psychological phenomena.Drawing on selected insights from Freud and Watson while moving beyond the DSM's descriptive framework, the book presents two complementary theories that provide a rational account of psychological distress. The Psycho-Bizarreness Theory (PBT) offers a new theoretical account of complex neurotic disorders-from panic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) to anorexia nervosa and dissociative identity disorder-by demonstrating that behaviors traditionally regarded as irrational are, in fact, rational coping strategies adopted under conditions of intolerable stress.Through a systematic analysis of twelve clinic