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Zusatztext A major scientific treatise on all aspects of fear! both normal and pathological! and is distinguished by its clarity! careful analysis of difficult material! and judicious evaluation of experimental evidence...magnificent book which...will almost certainly remain the standard work on the subject at least until the next revision. Psychiatrists! psychologists and ethologists will all find much to interest and even fascinate them. Klappentext Drawing on fields as diverse as genetics, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, psychology, psychiatry, and ethology, Isaac Marks has written a fascinating synthesis of information on the nature of fear, panic, and anxiety disorders. His book offers both a detailed discussion of the clinical aspects of fear-related syndromes and a broad exploration of the sources and mechanisms of fear and defensive behavior. Zusammenfassung This book is unique in bringing together information on fear and anxiety disorders from many disciplines, including ethology, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, psychology, and psychiatry. Definitive as a reference work, it is also fascinating to read. With over 3000 entries in the bibliography, the book is extremely thorough both in presenting the scientific basis for understanding fear behaviour and in describing anxiety disorders and their treatment. Dealing first with normal fear and then with clinical syndromes, it describes the phenomena and the factors known to influence them. It synthesizes naturalistic and experimental work in animals and humans so that researchers and clinicians can understand each other's work. The book will be of special use to behavioural scientists, clinical psychologists and psychiatrists, and of interest to many others. Inhaltsverzeichnis NORMAL FEAR: Fear, defense and evolution; Situations which evoke fear; Fear behaviours: The four strategies; Some fear adaptations; ETIOLOGY: Development of fear; Genetics of fear; Physiology of fear; Learning of fear; CLINICAL SYNDROMES: Phobic and obsessive-compulsive phenomena: Classification, prevalence and relationship to other problems; The agoraphobic syndrome (panic disorder with agoraphobia): Social and specific phobias; Traumatic phobias, illness phobias, and children's phobias; Obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD); TREATMENT: Psychological treatment: Principles; Psychological treatment: Clinical issues; Physical treatment of phobic and obsessive-compulsive disorders....
