Relationship between separation anxiety and panic and agoraphobic disorders.
Relationship between separation anxiety and panic and agoraphobic disorders.
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分离焦虑与恐慌和广场恐惧症之间的关系。
DOI:
10.1159/000284078
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发表时间:
1984
期刊:
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
Klein,DF
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文献类型:
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作者:
Gittelman,R;Klein,DF
The paper addresses several issues pertinent to the characteristics and treatment of separation anxiety in children and adults. The rationale for separating separation anxiety from other childhood anxiety conditions rests on clinical observations of its relationship to panic disorder and its response to drug treatment. The psychopharmacological treatment of separation anxiety is reviewed, with special emphasis on the use of tricyclic antidepressants. The literature relevant to a possible association between separation anxiety and adult panic disorder is presented. The prevalence of separation anxiety disorder in adult outpatients with panic disorder is discussed. Data are presented to address the issue of treatment response in adult panic disorders with and without separation anxiety.The scientific investigation of panic disor der and agoraphobia is of recent origin. Al though these conditions, like other psychiat ric disorders, are identified solely on the basis of salient symptomatology, coarse phenome nological similarities may represent common phenotypic expressions of different patho logic processes. Consequently, efforts to elu cidate antecedents, or physiological concom itants of the disorder, may be impeded by the lack of refinement in the overall patient pop ulation as mixed clinical groups may be merged.