التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Agoraphobia Is a Disease: A Tribute to Sir Martin Roth. |
| المؤلفون: |
Giovanni A. Fava, Chiara Rafanelli, Eliana Tossani, Silvana Grandi |
| المصدر: |
Psychotherapy & Psychosomatics. Mar2008, Vol. 77 Issue 3, p133-138. 6p. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*AGORAPHOBIA, *PANIC attacks, *DIAGNOSIS, *PANIC disorders, *ANXIETY disorders, *HYPOCHONDRIA |
| مستخلص: |
The evidence which has accumulated on the course of agoraphobia challenges the DSM view that phobic avoidance is secondary to panic attacks. In particular, a longitudinal study by Wittchen et al. indicates that agoraphobia, as a diagnostic category, is frequently independent of panic disorder and panic attacks, is unlikely to remit spontaneously and entails compromised quality of life. A staging system of agoraphobia is presented. Panic may ensue in the longitudinal development of agoraphobia, as well as of other anxiety disorders, and be conceptualized as a potential outcome in the course of anxiety, phobias and hypochondriasis as more than a specific disease entity. These recent research findings confirm the clinical observations and phenomenological research of Sir Martin Roth (1917–2006) and call for a reassessment of the concept of neurosis.Copyright © 2008 S. Karger AG, Basel [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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