Anxiety[edit]
In 1961 Riemann published a book called Grundformen der Angst [Basic Forms of Anxiety] in which he developed a typology of personality. He postulated that every person had two pairs of conflicting needs, each coming with their own form of fear or anxiety.
The first pair was the need to be an individual vs the need to be part of a group. The corresponding fears were fear of love and commitment and fear of loneliness and self-actualisation. The second pair was the need for constancy vs the need for change. The corresponding fears were fear of insecurity and change and fear of confinement and constancy.
Riemann stressed that everybody experienced all of these fears, to varying extents. However, if one of the fears became so dominant within a person that it eclipsed the other fears, the person was mentally unhealthy. Each fear thereby came with its own type of disorder: when the fear of love was dominant, Riemann spoke of schizoid people; when it was the fear of loneliness, he spoke of depressed persons; fear of change corresponded with obsessive characteristics; and fear of constancy brought out "hysterical" personalities
..well..simplified life...simplified fear...terminology...
and it just cannot be right, fear of loneliness = depressed, o God!
sounds really really not true
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