A Report On The Translation Of Angst: Origins Of Anxiety And Depression(Chapter 5)

Angst: Origins of Anxiety and Depression studies psychological problems from an evolutionary perspective,mainly analyzing the five instinctive syndromes––Panic Anxiety,Social Anxiety,OCD,Atypical Depression,and Melancholic Depression.It presents a new theory that common anxiety and depressive disorders are modern consequences of biologically evolved social instincts.The source text is selected from Chapter Five of this book which discusses Atypical Depression from an evolutionary perspective.The purpose of this translation project is to provide a fine popular science book of psychology for Chinese readers so that readers can understand some psychological knowledge and pay attention to their own and others’ mental health problems.According to Newmark’s text typology theory,the source text is an informative text which aims to deliver information to readers.In this situation,the translator should pay more attention to equivalence and communication of information.Therefore,the translator mainly adopts Newmark’s communicative translation theory to guide the translation.The report focuses on the analysis of the difficulties encountered by the translator in the process of translation and the corresponding solutions.It is hoped that this report can provide reference and inspiration for the translation and study of such texts in the future.