The rejected experience for people who suffer from anxiety over human relationship

Abstract

　One of the characteristics of people who suffer from anxiety over interpersonal relationships is that who have a low self-esteem. As its cause, past negative experiences, namely “rejected experiences” are presumed. I examined 33 case studies of clinical psychology. As the result, clients were not telling such experience directly. However, it was found, in interpersonal situations, they were strongly aware of “Oneself expressing”, “Oneself hiding from others” and “Oneself being seen from others”. The coexistence of these three “Oneself” generates dilemma which relates to the cause of interpersonal anxiety.