_AN OVERVIEW OF PRINCIPAL GOALS AND MAIN EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL DISORDERS THAT LEAD PEOPLE TO ENTER THERAPY_ §1 Personal development goals [ ] §1.1 developing new skills and personal traits: education leading to growth [ ] §1.2 eliminating self-destructive habits or undesirable personality traits: re-education leading to change (see §3 below) {68} §2 Disorders usually first noticed in childhood or adolescence [ ] §2.1 mental retardation [ ] §2.2 autism [ ] §2.3 emotional disturbances: separation anxiety, sleep terror and sleepwalking disorders, etc. [ ] §2.4 suffering from childhood pain, neglect, or abuse; traumatic experiences from childhood, unmet childhood needs [ ] §2.5 behavior problems: hyperactivity, antisocial behavior, movement disorders (see §10 below) [ ] §2.6 delinquency and criminal behavior [ ] §2.7 eating disorders: obesity, bulimia, anorexia nervosa §3 Personality trait problems [ ] §3.1 shyness/passivity [ ] §3.2 loneliness/emptiness [ ] §3.3 hostility/overbearing personality [ ] §3.4 fear of withdrawal of affection and of abandonment [ ] §3.5 general interpersonal problems [ ] §3.6 need to improve effectiveness of communication skills [ ] §3.7 difficulties in coping with persons in authority [ ] §3.8 loss of faith in oneself or in others, or in life's purpose or end [ ] §3.9 low self-worth, desire for a success-identity (self-esteem resulting from a sense of achievement) [ ] §3.10 deep discouragement with life (see §5 below) §4 Neuroses [ ] §4.1 anxiety disorders, panic disorders, post-traumatic stress disorders, etc. [ ] §4.2 phobias [ ] §4.3 compulsions [ ] §4.4 noögenic neuroses (resulting from serious conflicts between opposing values) [ ] §4.5 psychosomatic disorders, hypochondria [ ] §4.6 sexual disorders [ ] §4.7 impulse control disorders: e.g., pathological gambling, kleptomania, pyromania {69} §5 Mood disturbances (affective disorders) [ ] §5.1 depression [ ] §5.2 mania [ ] §5.3 manic depression §6 Adjustment problems [ ] §6.1 in relation to a new environment or an already familiar one; work inhibitions [ ] §6.2 in persons with counterculture attitudes and values [ ] §6.3 emotional difficulties arising from poverty and from the deprivations suffered by minority groups [ ] §6.4 inability to accept realities that limit life: e.g., financial limitations, restricted opportunities, aging and death (see §9 below), jobs with "no future," responsibilities that stand in the way of personal development [ ] §7 Marital problems [ ] §8 Family problems §9 Problems related to aging [ ] §9.1 emotional problems in facing old age [ ] §9.2 problems facing the recently widowed [ ] §9.3 coping with physical pain and disability §10 Involuntary behaviors [ ] §10.1 stuttering [ ] §10.2 shaking or motor tic disorders [ ] §10.3 insomnia §11 Crisis intervention: a need for _prompt_ relief from severe symptoms