PANIC DISORDER - A PRODUCT OF CLASSICAL-CONDITIONING
PANIC DISORDER - A PRODUCT OF CLASSICAL-CONDITIONING
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DOI:
10.1016/0005-7967(88)90138-6
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发表时间:
1988-01-01
影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
ROWAN, VC
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作者:
WOLPE, J;ROWAN, VC
Contrary to the common view that all panic attacks have a single etiology, it is shown that a distinction must be made between initial attacks, for which there are many causes, and recurrent attacks (panic disorder) which have a common basis. Most initial panic attacks are attributable to the physiological effects of hyperventilation resulting from severe and prolonged anxiety. It has been claimed that the attacks are due to such symptoms as dyspnea, tachycardia and dizziness being misattributed to deadly illness or incipient insanity. We reject this view on several grounds, and in particular because of a pilot study that showed that such attributionsfollowthe onset of panic. Apart from some biological cases, the common initial panic is an unconditioned response to a bizarre stimulus complex produced by excessive hyperventilation, and panic disorder is the result of contiguous stimuli, especially endogenous stimuli, being conditioned to the elicited anxiety. Treatment accords with principles of conditioning.