PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Psychoanalysis, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder
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Dsm-iv-tr proposed six categories: phobias, panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder (gad), ocd, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), & acute stress disorder: often someone with one anxiety disorder meets the diagnostic criteria for another disorder, as well. This comorbidity among anxiety disorders arises for two reasons: 1) symptoms of the various anxiety disorders are not entirely disorder specific. 9% of men suffered from anxiety disorders in the preceding year. It should be noted at the outset that a growing body of evidence suggests that. Ptsd & gad have more in common with major depression than with other anxiety disorders. Social phobias: social phobias are persistent, irrational fears linked generally to the presence of other people. Psychoanalytic theories: according to freud, phobias are a defence against the anxiety produced by repressed id impulses. 2) the person can learn to reduce this conditioned fear by escaping from or avoiding the cs.
