Anxiety: Psychodynamic and Neurobiologic Dialogue

There is a wide range of normal anxiety which is considered healthy under normal circumstances. Pathological anxiety is characterized by excessiveness, pervasiveness and inability to control it as well as interference with the ability to function. The aetiology of anxiety may be considered from the psychodynamic, biological and neuroscience perspective. In the epigenetic process, our experience determines which genes will be involved and which excluded. Certain genes have been located, the variability of which in the expression of „visceral brain“ neurons modulates remembrance of fear and somatic reactions to anxiety. The brain is an organ of adaptation which is built by experience during development and rebuilt during psychotherapy. Psychotherapy works in such a way that it uses the brains plasticity to cause forming of new synaptic connections which will be stronger than the earlier ones and which will be used more over time. The more we understand how the brain functions, the better a cohesive treatment plan we can realize, with the aim of supporting balance and development of the brain.