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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 ...
David V. Sheehan, Kathy Harnett 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 ...
I. Marks
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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 +4 more
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