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Phobic Disorders

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 1994
3258 randomly selected adult household residents of the city of Edmonton were interviewed by trained lay interviewers using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS). Using DMS‐III criteria, hierarchy‐free, the lifetime prevalence for all phobias was 8.9%. Rates for women (11.7%) were almost twice those for men (6.1%).
C.L. Dick, B. Sowa, R.C. Bland, S.C. Newman   +3 more
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Behaviour Therapy and Phobic Disorders

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1963
There are a number of established forms of treatment for neurotic symptoms. In some patients symptoms are relieved by drugs which control anxiety, in others by antidepressant drugs (Sargant and Dally, 1962), still others appear to respond to some form of individual or group psychotherapy.
V, MEYER, M G, GELDER
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The Classification of Phobic Disorders

The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 1983
The history of classification of phobic disorders is reviewed. Problems in the ability of current classification schemes to predict, control and describe the relationship between the symptoms and other phenomena are outlined. A new classification of phobic disorders is proposed based on the presence or absence of an endogenous anxiety syndrome with ...
D V, Sheehan, K H, Sheehan
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The Classification of Phobic Disorders

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1970
History of term ‘phobia’The term ‘phobia’ derives from the Greek word ‘phobos’ meaning panic-fear and terror, and from the deity of the same name who provoked fear and panic in one's enemies. Although morbid fears have been described by doctors from Hippocrates onwards, the word phobia has only been used on its own since the beginning of the 19th ...
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Contingent Negative Variation and Phobic Disorders

Neuropsychobiology, 1983
The authors studied the modifications in contingent negative variation (CNV) in a group of rupophobic subjects. A slide-projected phobogenic or a neutral stimulus was administered 5 s prior to the warning stimulus (S1). A marked reduction in CNV amplitude and the appearance of post-imperative negative variation were observed when the phobogenic ...
P A, Rizzo, M, Spadaro, G, Albani, C, Morocutti   +3 more
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Phobic Disorders in the Elderly

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1991
Sixty confirmed cases of phobic disorder identified in an urban elderly community sample were compared with 60 controls matched pairwise for age and sex. Cases reported higher rates of specific and non-specific neurotic symptoms, and all were assigned to a diagnostic catego class, compared with seven of the controls.
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A rating scale for phobic disorders

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 1983
ABSTRACT– – Scales were constructed for the rating of phobic disorders, taking into account both behaviour therapeutic and psycho‐dynamic aspects. The scales rate phobic behaviour with regard to anxiety (situational and anticipatory) and coping (avoidance and escape).
J E, Alström, C L, Nordlund, G, Persson
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Phobic disorders

1989
Chapter 4 discusses phobic disorders. It outlines types of phobia, the frequency of phobias, and explores the theoretical background to treatment, stages of assessment (including phobia treatment suitability, goal determination, phobia measurement), phobia treatment in practice (useful methods of treatment, complicating factors, and alternative ...
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Panic and Phobic Disorders

2018
Panic and phobic disorders are among the most common psychiatric syndromes. Panic disorder is a chronic illness characterized by recurrent, acute panic attacks, which are discrete episodes of anxiety or fearfulness with definite onset, rapid increase, and spontaneous termination.
Carol S. North, Sean H. Yutzy
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