Handbook of Anxiety : Volume 1 : Biological, Clinical and Cultural Perspectives

Roth, Martin - Noyes, Russell - Burrows, Graham (Ed)

The recent burgeoning of scientific enquiry into anxiety disorders has shed new light on the biological and psychosocial causes of anxiety disorders as well as on the normal emotion of anxiety. In so doing it has helped sharpen the line of demarcation between them. It has also paved the way for the development of novel forms of treatment that are already bringing relief to those affected by those forms of suffering dominated by morbid anxiety. States of anxiety continue to be difficult to measure and to define and the differentiation of these conditions from other forms of psychiatric disorders and from ordinary anxiety remains a subject of controversy and debate between various sections of thought.

ISBN 9780444904751, 1988, Elsevier Scientific Publications, 1st, 436p, hc,