Biological, clinical and cultural perspectives
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Biological, clinical and cultural perspectives
(Handbook of anxiety, v. 1)
Elsevier, 1988
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Description
The recent burgeoning of scientific enquiry into anxiety disorders has shed new light on the biological and psychosocial causes of anxiety disorders as well as on the normal emotion of anxiety. In so doing it has helped sharpen the line of demarcation between them. It has also paved the way for the development of novel forms of treatment that are already bringing relief to those affected by those forms of suffering dominated by morbid anxiety. States of anxiety continue to be difficult to measure and to define and the differentiation of these conditions from other forms of psychiatric disorders and from ordinary anxiety remains a subject of controversy and debate between various sections of thought. This new open-ended Handbook of Anxiety series seeks to steer the middle road between the various streams: by having its editorship divided over Europe, the USA and Australia, and through a highly international team of authors, a scholarly, up-to-date and critical review providing the necessary balance is warranted. This volume explores the different dimensions of anxiety and their interactions, focussing on the growing points created by the scientific advances of the past decade.
Table of Contents
1. The current state of the art. Consensus overview of the classification (M. Roth, Cambridge, U.K.) 2. Beyond DSM-III: re-evaluation of the concepts of panic, agoraphobia, and generalized anxiety disorders (G. Perugi, Pisa, Italy, H. Akiskal, Memphis, TN, G.B. Cassano, Pisa, Italy, J. Deltito, White Plains, NY, and N. Edwards, Memphis, TN) 3. Relationship between anxiety and depression (G.L. Klerman, White Plains, NY) 4. Anxiety disorders: an epidemiologic perspective (M.M. Weissman, New Haven, CT) 5. Family and twin studies of panic disorder and agoraphobia (R.R. Crowe, Iowa City, IA) 6. The natural history of anxiety disorders (R. Noyes, Iowa City, IA) 7. The physiology of anxiety states (W.R. Hobbs, Charlottesville, VA) 8. Biological factors of anxiety (A.P. Levin and M.R. Liebowitz, New York, NY) 9. Neurobiological substrates of anxiety (A. Breier and S.M. Paul, Bethesda, MD) 10. Adult anxiety disorders and childhood separation anxiety (R. Gittelman Klein and D.F. Klein, New York, NY) 11. Anxiety and personality (J.A. Gray, London, U.K.) 12. Anxiety in childhood (I. Kolvin and C. Kaplan, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.) 13. The psychodynamic view of anxiety: an historical approach (J.C. Nemiah, Hanover, NH) 14. Transcultural aspects of anxiety (E.-S. Tan, Fitzroy, Australia) 15. Behavioral/psychological treatment of generalized anxiety (J. Cobb, London, U.K.) 16. Physical treatment of anxiety: the benzodiazepines (T.R. Norman, F.K. Judd, P.F. Marriott and G.D. Burrows, Heidelberg, Australia) 17. The therapeutic value, limitations and hazards of treatment of psychiatric disorders with benzodiazepines (R.O. Friedel, Richmond, VA) 18. Recent advances in the study of anxiety (G.W. Fenton, Dundee, U.K.)
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