All we have to fear : psychiatry's transformation of natural anxieties into mental disorders /

Thirty years ago, it was estimated that less than five percent of the population had an anxiety disorder. Today, some estimates are over fifty percent, a tenfold increase. Is this dramatic rise evidence of a real medical epidemic?In All We Have to Fear, Allan Horwitz and Jerome Wakefield argue that...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Horwitz, Allan V.
Otros Autores: Wakefield, Jerome C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Temas:
Anxiety disorders > Diagnosis.
Psychiatry > Methodology.
Psychiatrie > Méthodologie.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > Anxieties & Phobias.
SELF-HELP > Anxieties & Phobias.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Puzzle of Anxiety Disorders
  • 2. Evolutionary Approach to Normal and Pathological Anxiety
  • 3. Normal, Pathological, and Mismatched Anxiousness
  • 4. Short History of Anxiety and Its Disorders
  • 5. Validity of the DSM Diagnostic Criteria for Anxiety Disorders
  • 6. Fear and Anxiety in the Community
  • 7. PTSD
  • 8. Transformation of Anxiety into Depression
  • 9. Setting Boundaries between Natural Fears and Anxiety Disorders.

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