| Research has found that women are diagnosed with anxiety disorders twice as often as men. This thesis explores women's intrapsychic experience of anxiety and, from a depth psychological perspective, how it relates to their path to individuation. Utilizing both hermeneutic and intuitive inquiry methodologies, this thesis examines the biological and psychological research that exists on the topic of women and anxiety as well as the author's personal experience of anxiety and individuation. The psychic phenomena of dreams, the unconscious, persona, and shadow are analyzed in relation to women's experience of anxiety. |
