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Risk-taking Psychoanalytic theory Psychoanalysts at the turn of the 20th century (who were inspired by Sigmund Freud) concluded that it was not normal to overcome these natural fears at all, and risk taking behaviour was in fact evidence of a diseased mind. They could not conceive of any reason why people would choose to risk their lives, and as a result concluded that risk takers were acting without reason. They failed to understand risk taking behaviour from within the confines of their own hypotheses, which lead them to classify risky behaviours as expressive of suicidal tendencies, a death wish ("Thantos") or repressed feelings of masculine inadequacy. It was therefore proposed that people such as mountaineers were illogical, or even pathological. Indeed the legacy of this train of thought continues to be influential although the balance of intellectual power has long since shifted. The main problem with this explanation of risk taking behaviour...

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