[Anxiety and psychotherapies (author's transl)].

The two words "anxiety" and "angoisse" are now generally used in the same sense in the french psychiatric literature. S. Freud distinguished anxiety neurosis from neurasthenia, providing a detailed clinical description and developing a psychopathological theory of anxiety. All forms of mental disease include to the same extent, anxiety. The treatment of anxiety depends upon the clinical background. Various approaches--psychotherapy psychopharmacology--are often simultaneously necessary.