Methatesiophobia
| Classification according to ICD-10 | |
|---|---|
| F40.2 | Specific (isolated) phobias |
| ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019) | |
Methatesiophobia (also fear of success ) describes an exaggerated, pathological fear of change.
It is one of the specific anxiety disorders . Often this is the reason to break out of existing, mostly unhappy situations or relationships or to dedicate oneself to projects. The fear can relate to professional, family, partnership or other life situations. Those affected usually worry that they are not satisfied despite everything, develop self-doubts and usually fear the fear of criticism , growth , changes in the social environment and the perception of themselves , of impending excessive demands or mistakes. Here, these are usually the skills that make you mature, are important to experience allow and empathy and resilience create.
Sigmund Freud discovered this fear for the first time in 1915 and says that people give the impression that they cannot accept their satisfaction and that they think they would be shipwrecked if they succeed. Mannheim differentiated the success in social and professional success, as well as the agreement that the successful person actually feels towards the successes achieved. Even in the oedipal phase , experiences of success and failure are reflected in a competitive situation with the same-sex parent.
Otto Fenichel leads this to successes that arose during this time and are felt to be undeserved, incorrect and lead to feelings of guilt. Schilder describes the fear of success as a discrepancy between the success achieved and the anticipated self-ideal (s). According to Schuster, fears of success arise due to an ambivalent attitude towards a talent, success is not achieved or a certain inhibition of fear leads to the achievement of the desired goals becoming too great or the successes being perceived as worthless in retrospect. However, epidemiological observations on fear of success are not available.
literature
- F. Strian: Anxiety: Basics and Clinic. A Guide to Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ Psychologist Christian Hilscher: Methatesiophobie - PSYLEX.de. Retrieved October 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Are you afraid of success? In: karrierebibel.de . July 3, 2016 ( karrierebibel.de [accessed October 28, 2017]).
- ↑ F. Strian: fear: and Dysfunction. A manual on psychiatry and medical psychology . Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-93245-8 ( books.google.de [accessed on October 28, 2017]).
