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The effectiveness of anxiety treatment on alcohol-dependent patients with a comorbid phobic disorder: a randomized controlled trial.

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 2005
OBJECTIVE Evidence has emerged which indicates that the post-treatment relapse rate for alcohol-dependent patients with a comorbid anxiety disorder is higher than for alcohol-dependent patients without a comorbid anxiety disorder.
A. Schadé, L. Marquenie, A. V. van Balkom, M. Koeter, E. de Beurs, W. van den Brink, R. van Dyck   +6 more
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Frequency of phobic disorder in a community sample of young adolescents.

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 1995
OBJECTIVE To investigate the frequency and phenomenology of clinical, subsyndromal, and subthreshold phobias in young adolescents. METHODS A two-stage epidemiological study originally designed to investigate adolescent depression was conducted between ...
J. Milne, C. Garrison, C. Addy, R. Mckeown, K. Jackson, S. Cuffe, J. Waller   +6 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.
M. G. Gelder, V. Meyer
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Social phobic symptoms in patients with panic disorder: practical and theoretical implications.

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1989
Of 35 patients with DSM-III-R diagnoses of panic disorder, 16 also received diagnoses of social phobia, and 15 of these 16 reported past episodes of major depression.
M. Stein, C. A. Shea, T. Uhde
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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, G. Persson, C. L. Nordlund   +2 more
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Specificity of neuropsychological impairment in obsessive-compulsive disorder: a comparison with social phobic and normal control subjects.

The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 1996
Specificity of neuropsychological dysfunction in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) was assessed by comparing neuropsychological performance in 65 OCD patients, 17 social phobic patients, and 32 normal control subjects.
L. Cohen, E. Hollander, C. Decaria, Dan J Stein, D. Simeon, M. Liebowitz, B. Aronowitz   +6 more
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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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Specificity in Familial Aggregation of Phobic Disorders

Archives of General Psychiatry, 1995
To investigate whether each of three DSM-III-R phobic disorders (simple phobia, social phobia, and agoraphobia with panic attacks) is familial and "breeds true."Rates of each phobic disorder were contrasted in first-degree relatives of four proband groups: simple phobia, social phobia, agoraphobia with panic attacks, and not ill controls.
Donald F. Klein, Tim F. Chapman, Abby J. Fyer, Salvatore Mannuzza, Lynn Y. Martin   +4 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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Racial Differences in Prevalence of Phobic Disorders

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1990
Few community-based field studies have examined racial differences in the prevalence of phobia disorders. Using data from two sites of a large epidemiologic survey, this study investigates risk factors associated with the one-month prevalence of phobia disorders from 2340 black and 3936 white respondents.
Linda K. Sussman, Diane R. Brown, William W. Eaton   +2 more
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