Anxiety

This thoroughly revised edition ofAnxietyhas been updated to include the latest advances in the understanding and treatment of this most prominent and pervasive emotion. Unique in its combination of an introduction to the subject with comprehensive coverage of the latest developments in research and practice, this book provides an excellent breadth and depth of coverage, which all practicing and trainee clinical psychologists will find extremely informative.

Series preface

vii

Preface

ix

The nature of anxiety

1

(26)

Defining anxiety

3

(5)

The nature of fear

8

(4)

Fear, anxiety, and avoidance

12

(7)

Varieties of fear

19

(5)

The concept of anxiety disorders

24

(2)

Summary

26

(1)

Influences on anxiety

27

(34)

A model of anxiety

27

(10)

Anxiety, attention, perception, and memory

37

(10)

Anxiety and memory

47

(6)

Emotional processing

53

(2)

Affect and cognition

55

(3)

Summary

58

(3)

Theories of anxiety

61

(18)

Anxiety as the product of learning

61

(6)

Cognitive analyses of anxiety

67

(2)

Psychoanalytical explanations

69

(4)

Biological theories of anxiety

73

(3)

Summary

76

(3)

Specific phobias and the conditioning theory of fear

79

(16)

Evidence for the conditioning theory

79

(5)

The conditioning theory: Contrary evidence and arguments

84

(5)

Neoconditioning theory

89

(3)

Specific phobias

92

(1)

Summary

93

(2)

Panic and anxiety

95

(28)

The experience of panic

99

(1)

The incidence of panic

100

(1)

The debate about panic

101

(18)

Treatment

119

(3)

Summary

122

(1)

Agoraphobia

123

(6)

Treatment

127

(1)

Summary

128

(1)

Obsessions and compulsions

129

(18)

Types of compulsive behaviour

135

(1)

Persistence

136

(4)

Obsessions

140

(3)

Compulsive hoarding

143

(1)

Relationship to anxiety

143

(1)

Treatment

143

(2)

Summary

145

(2)

Social anxiety

147

(14)

The definition of social anxiety

147

(3)

Cognitive theory of social anxiety

150

(6)

Social anxiety within the general framework of anxiety

156

(1)

Treatment

157

(2)

Summary

159

(2)

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)

161

(8)

The search for safety

164

(2)

Treatment

166

(1)

Summary

167

(2)

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

169

(12)

Explanations for PTSD

171

(8)

Acute stress disorder (ASD)

179

(1)

Summary

180

(1)

Appendix

181

(2)

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