Research Catalog

Title

Anxiety / S. Rachman.

Author

Rachman, Stanley.

Publication

Hove : Psychology Press ; New York : Taylor & Francis, 2004.

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Details

Description

ix, 211 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

Rachman deals with definitions and the nature of anxiety and fear, theories and influences on anxiety, panic and cognitive theory, specific phobias and the conditioning theory of fear.

Series Statement

Clinical psychology, a modular course, 1368-454X

Uniform Title

Clinical psychology, a modular course.

Subject

• Anxiety
• Anxiety disorders
• Anxiety Disorders
• Anxiety
• anxiety
• Anxiety disorders
• Angst
• Angst
• Angststoornissen

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-205) and index.

Contents

The nature of anxiety -- The nature of fear -- Fear, anxiety, and avoidance -- Varieties of fear -- The concept of anxiety disorders -- Influences on anxiety -- A model of anxiety -- Anxiety, attention, perception, and memory -- Anxiety and memory -- Emotional processing -- Affect and cognition -- Theories of anxiety -- Anxiety as the product of learning -- Cognitive analyses of anxiety -- Psychoanalytical explanations -- Biological theories of anxiety -- Specific phobias and the conditioning theory of fear -- Evidence for the conditioning theory -- The conditioning theory: Contrary evidence and arguments -- Neoconditioning theory -- Specific phobias -- Panic and anxiety -- The experience of panic -- The incidence of panic -- The debate about panic -- Treatment -- Agoraphobia -- Treatment -- Obsessions and compulsions -- Types of compulsive behaviour -- Persistence -- Obsessions -- Compulsive hoarding -- Relationship to anxiety -- Treatment -- Social anxiety -- The definition of social anxiety -- Cognitive theory of social anxiety -- Social anxiety within the general framework of anxiety -- Treatment -- Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) -- The search for safety -- Treatment -- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) -- Explanations for PTSD -- Acute stress disorder (ASD).

ISBN

• 1841695157
• 9781841695150
• 1841695165
• 9781841695167

LCCN

• 2004001276
• 9781841695167

OCLC

• ocm54206737
• 54206737
• SCSB-9793644

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library