Anxiety Disorders

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Classification and Nosology

   1. Proposed Revisions in the DSM-III Classification of Anxiety Disorders Based on Research and Clinical Experience

      • Robert L. Spitzer, Janet B. W. Williams

      Pages 1-19

   2. The Differentiation of Anxiety and Depressive Syndromes

      • Richard P. Swinson, Marlene Kirby

      Pages 21-34

3. Basic Science Studies of Anxiety

   1. The Neurobiology of Anxiety: A Tale of Two Systems

      • Thomas R. Insel

      Pages 35-49

   2. The Psychophysiology of Anxiety and Hedonic Affect: Motivational Specificity

      • Don C. Fowles

      Pages 51-66

   3. Anxiety and Memory

      • Peter J. Lang

      Pages 67-92

4. Psychological Treatment

   1. A Psychological Model of Panic

      • David H. Barlow

      Pages 93-114

   2. Cognitive Approaches to Anxiety Disorders

      • Aaron T. Beck

      Pages 115-135

   3. Exposure-Based Treatments for Anxiety Disorders

      • Isaac Marks

      Pages 137-147

   4. Psychosocial Treatment of Anxiety Disorders

      • G. Terence Wilson

      Pages 149-163

   5. Self-Control Skills for the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders

      • Marvin R. Goldfried

      Pages 165-178

5. Pharmacological Treatment

   1. New Perspectives on the Treatment of Panic and Phobic Disorders

      • Charlotte M. Zitrin

      Pages 179-202

   2. The Use of Benzodiazepines in Anxiety Disorders

      • Frank E. Cashman

      Pages 203-214

   3. New Approaches to the Pharmacological Treatment of Anxiety and Depression

      • Y. D. Lapierre

      Pages 215-228

6. Summary

   1. Anxiety Disorders: Future Directions and Closing Comments

      • T. Michael Vallis, Zindel V. Segal

      Pages 229-246

7. Back Matter

   Pages 247-252

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Anxiety is one of those entltles which everyone "knows", but which ultimately resists simple objective description. The essence of the phenomenon is its subjectivity. True it has its well documented associated physiological events: the increased pulse rate and blood pressure, sweating, and so on, but each of these phenomena may also be part of physical exertion, fear, or even pleasurable excitement. They cannot fully define the sense of threat, danger, collapse, malignancy in greater or smaller amount, in greater or lesser locali­ sation, with more or less objective evidence for its validity that characterises the particular psychological pain we all recognize as anxiety. It is precisely the essential subjectivity of anxiety and its association with an enormous range of experience that makes it difficult to assign to it well-defined diagnostic labels of the kinds so carefully described by Dr. Spitzer in his chapter on classification. His chapter ranges from the extreme dread of "Panic Disorders", to the diffuse terror of the environment which used to be labelled "Agoraphobia" (and is still so called in the day to day pragmatic usage of many clinics) and is not assimilated to the class of phobias with the label "Social Phobias". He also addresses the "Simple Phobias" which are perhaps the most readily labelled of the many varieties of anxiety.

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• biology
• depression
• epidemiology
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• University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

  Brian F. Shaw, Zindel V. Segal, T. Michael Vallis, Frank E. Cashman

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