Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Joseph Zohar Leah Fostick Elizabeth Juven-Wetzler Introduction Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common, chronic, and disabling disorder marked by obsessions and/or compulsions that are egodystonic and cause significant…
Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia James C. Ballenger Introduction Panic disorder draws its name from the Greek god Pan, god of flocks. Pan was known for suddenly frightening animals and humans…
Social Anxiety Disorder and Specific Phobias Michelle A. Blackmore Brigette A. Erwin Richard G. Heimberg Leanne Magee David M. Fresco Introduction As our classification systems have been refined, we have…
Generalized Anxiety Disorders Stella Bitran David H. Barlow David A. Spiegel Anxious apprehension and overconcern are common to many anxiety and mood disorders. Prior to 1980 in the American DSM…
Bereavement Beverley Raphael Sally Wooding Julie Dunsmore Bereavement is the complex set reactions that occurs with the death of a loved one: the emotions of grief with yearning, angry protest,…
Adjustment Disorders James J. Strain Kimberly Klipstein Jeffrey Newcorm Introduction The psychiatric diagnoses that arise between normal behaviour and major psychiatric morbidities constitute the problematic subthreshold disorders. These subthreshold entities…
Recovered Memories and False Memories Chris R. Brewin Clinicians working with survivors of traumatic experiences have frequently noted the existence of memory loss with no obvious physical cause and the…
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Anke Ehlers Introduction Clinicians have long noted that traumatic events can lead to severe psychological disturbance. At the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the…
Acute Stress Reactions Anke Ehlers Allison G. Harvey Richard A. Bryant Introduction Exceptionally stressful life events can cause severe psychological symptoms, including anxiety, feelings of derealization and depersonalization, and hyperarousal….
Dysthymia, Cyclothymia, and Hyperthymia Hagop S. Akiskal Subthreshold affective conditions, personality, and temperament Long before psychiatry moved to the outpatient arena in the latter part of the twentieth century, psychiatrists…
