Description:
This is the first manual to comprehensively examine the usefulness of exploratory psychotherapy in the treatment of panic disorder. It suggests that psychodynamic approaches can aid both psychopharmacological and cognitive-behavioral treatments and can often resolve panic symptoms in many patients when used as the sole treatment modality.
Review Quotes:
This book launches a bold and timely riposte at what is rapidly becoming the prevailing wisdom in American psychiatry, that the treatment of axis I disorders belongs in the domain of pharmacologically and behaviorally oriented approaches rather than in that of psychodynamic therapy, where it rested for so many years. Based on a preliminary study of nine patients with panic disorder, the editors, including two prominent psychoanalysts, have produced a psychodynamic formulation applicable to many or most patients with this disorder.