El trastorno de angustia y la enfermedad de Freud / Anxiety disorder and Freud's disease

RESUMO

The author examined Freud's chest pains and arrythmia beginning in late 1893 according to the new available data and modern psychiatry. Published studies and recent findings were reviewed. The major works of Freud were also considered. Among the issues examined are clinical features, comorbidity, bounderies with other disorders. The findings of this review provided support for the dual diagnosis of panic disorder without agoraphobia and nicotine dependence. Freud's scientific learning was wide-ranging and his scientific ambition vast. During this period (1893-1897) Freud laid the foundations for the theory of anxiety. He referred to the conditions caused by the damned-up libido as the actual neuroses. Although the work of Freud has the same aim as the modern DSM-IV, the classification of the Austrian author reflects a different tradition. A discrepancy exists between anxiety neuroses (Freud) and anxiety disorders (DSM-IV)