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Volume 7, issue 4

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Anxiety disorders – psychopathology and therapy

BEATA JANKE-KLIMASZEWSKA1
1. Kliniki Nerwic Instytutu Psychiatrii i Neurologii w Warszawie
Postępy Psychiatrii i Neurologii, 1998, 7, 375-386
Keywords: anxiety disorders, ICD-10, therapy

Abstract

The paper presents an overview of theoretical approaches to psychopathology of anxiety disorders, anxiety characteristics, and their major psychological and neurophysiological underlying mechanisms. Selected anxiety syndromes are discussed in terms of the ICD-10, with the emphasis on clinical symptoms, differential diagnosis and treatment specificity in accordance with the theory and practice applied in the Department of Neurotic Disorders.

Address for correspondence:
Dr Beata Janke-Klimaszewska,
Klinika Nerwic IPiN,
Al. Sobieskiego 1/9, 02-957 Warszawa