The Use of Guilt as a Defense Against Anxiety Richard A. Gardner, M.D. The purpose of this paper is to (1) discuss the utilization of guilt as a defense mechanism in handling some of the anxieties of human existence, and (2) to describe the employment of this type of guilt reaction in certain psychoanalytic, social and religious phenomena. The term, existential, as it will be used in this paper...

the absence of compassion, argues the author, is not the cause of healthcare failures but rather a symptom of deeper systemic failures. the clinical encounter arouses strong emotions of anxiety, fear, and anger in patients which are often projected onto the clinicians. attempts to protect clinicians through various bureaucratic devices and depersonalization of the patient, constitute as menzies...

BACKGROUND The psychological wellbeing of people with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) may be negatively affected due to the chronic and transmissible nature of the disease, and possible serious complications (e.g. cirrhosis and liver cancer). There are limited data investigating concerns and anxieties among people living with CHB. OBJECTIVES This study examined feelings about having hepatitis B amo...