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\s=b\While other anxiety disorders have recently become the subjects of increasing investigation, social phobia remains, except among behavior therapists, relatively unstudied. As a result, major uncertainties exist concerning classification, prevalence, severity, etiology, assessment, and treatment of social phobia. Existing findings do suggest that in its own right and as a comparison for other anxiety disorders, social phobia should prove a fertile area for psychobiological and clinical investigation.(Aren Gen Psychiatry 1985;42:729-736)From both research and clinical perspectives, social phobia is among the most neglected of the major anxiety disorders classified in DSM-III. While panic disor¬ der, agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorder, and ob¬ sessive compulsive disorder have become the subjects of increasing investigation, social phobia remains, except among behavior therapists, relatively unstudied. Thus, despite the suggestion made more than 15 years ago by Marks and Gelder1 that social phobia differed from other phobic disorders, to our knowledge, there have been no published family or biological challenge studies of social phobies. The few available psychopharmacology
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- Author
- Michael R. Liebowitz
- Published
- 1985
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Social Sciences)