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Further reading
If you’d like more information about anxiety disorders in general, we’ve devoted a substantial section to them in Know Your Mind: Everyday Emotional and Psychological Problems and How to Overcome Them (Rodale, 2009). Also worth checking out is Helen Kennerley’s Overcoming Anxiety (Robinson, 2009).
On the Internet, see www.anxietyuk.org.uk, the website of the charity Anxiety UK, and www.adaa.org, which is run by the Anxiety Disorders Association of America.
Phobias
Edmund Bourne, The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook, 5th edn. (New Harbinger, 2011)
Warren Mansell, Coping with Fears and Phobias (Oneworld, 2007)
http://topuk.org (Triumph Over Phobia UK)
Shyness and social phobia
Gillian Butler, Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness (Robinson, 2009)
Murray Stein and John Walker, Triumph Over Shyness (Anxiety Disorders Association of America, 2002)
www.anxietynetwork.com
www.social-anxiety.org.uk
www.socialphobia.org
Panic disorder
Stanley Rachman and Padmal de Silva, Panic Disorder: The Facts (Oxford University Press, 2009)
Derrick Silove and Vijaya Manicavasagar, Overcoming Panic and Agoraphobia (Robinson, 2009)
http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk
http://nopanic.org.uk
http://anxietypanic.com
Worry and generalized anxiety disorder
Robert Leahy, The Worry Cure (New Harbinger, 2006)
Kevin Meares and Mark Freeston, Overcoming Worry (Robinson, 2008)
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Christine Purdon and David Clark, Overcoming Obsessive Thoughts (New Harbinger, 2005)
Padmal de Silva and Stanley Rachman, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (Oxford University Press, 2009)
David Veale and Rob Willson, Overcoming Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (Robinson, 2009)
http://www.ocdaction.org.uk
http://www.ocfoundation.org
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Barbara Olasov Rothbaum, Edna Foa, and Elizabeth Hembree, Reclaiming Your Life from a Traumatic Experience (Oxford University Press, 2007)
Glenn Schiraldi, The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook, 2nd edn. (McGraw-Hill, 2009)
http://www.ptsd.va.gov
Index
9/11 attacks, after-effects 102–3
A
abuse, childhood 39, 83–4
accidents
and cognitive behaviour therapy 120–1
and post-traumatic stress disorder 107–8
adoption studies 35–6
age
and generalized anxiety disorder 87
and obsessive-compulsive disorder 98
and panic disorder 77–8
and phobias 61
and social phobia 70
agoraphobia 77, 82
Ainsworth, Mary 42
Albert B. 18–19
alcohol for nerves 49–50
amygdala 30–32, 64, 109
Angst 4
anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) 109
anxiety disorders
and brain function 32
and childhood trauma 39–40
and cognitive theories 25–7
‘anxiety neurosis’ 15–16
anxiety sensitivity test 83
anxiolytic drugs 113
anxious/avoidant attachment style 42, 43
anxious/resistant attachment style 42–3
appraisal of situations 23–4
attachment styles 41–3
attentional bias 26
Auden, W. H. 1–2
autonomic nervous system (ANS) 9
avoidance strategies 20, 26, 82
for phobias 62–3
worry as 89
B
Banse, Rainer and Klaus Scherer 6
Barlow, David 11
Beck, Aaron T. 24–6, 117
behavioural desensitization 21
behavioural theories of anxiety 17–22
behaviourism and obsessivecompulsive disorder 98–9
Benedikt, Moritz 4
benzodiazepines 116–17
beta-blockers 117
biological perspectives
on generalized anxiety disorder 91–2
on obsessive-compulsive disorder 100–101
on panic disorder 78–80
on post-traumatic stress disorder 108–10
biological preparedness 64
blood-injection-injury phobias, treatment 119–20
Bowlby, John 41–2
brain function
and generalized anxiety disorder 91–2
and obsessive-compulsive disorder 100–101
and phobias 66
and post-traumatic stress disorder 108–10
theories of anxiety 27–33
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Capote) 1
Brewin, Chris 108
Butler, Gillian 117
C
camera anxiety 47
Cannon, Walter 9
Capote, Truman 1
Caspi, Avshalom and Terrie Moffitt 38
Cervantes 65–6
childhood experiences 38–44
abuse 39, 83–4
and generalized anxiety disorder 93
and obsessive-compulsive disorder 101
chromosomes 34–5
Churchill, Winston 85
cingulotomy 101
Clark, David 27, 80–2
and Adrian Wells 71–2, 74
cognitive avoidance theory of worry 89
cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) 22, 112–15, 117–22
for obsessive-compulsive disorder 99–100
for phobias 119–20
for post-traumatic stress disorder 120–1
self-help 122
virtual-reality 121–2
cognitive biases 26
cognitive enhancers 113–14
Cognitive Psychology (Neisser) 22
cognitive theories of anxiety 22–7
compulsions 95; see also obsessive-compulsive disorder
conditioning 19–21
and obsessive-compulsive disorder 98–9
and phobias 62–5
confidence
inspiring in others 53, 57
and social phobia 72
CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) 111–12
control
intolerance of uncertainty 90
and nerves 56–7
and panic attacks 79
parental 40–1
coping strategies 47–8
corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) 32
cortisol (stress hormone) 109
criticism
hypersensitivity to 74
vs. praise 53, 57
D
Darwin, Charles 7–9, 75
Davey, Graham 90
de Jong, Joop 106
definitions of anxiety 10–12
depression vs. generalized anxiety disorder 92–3
disgust and phobias 65
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) 34–5
‘dolls that remove worries’ 85
drugs as treatment for anxiety 113–14, 115–17
DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders) 10–11
dysphoria 11
E
ego 16–17
Ehlers, Anke
and Peter Breuer 82
and David Clark 106–8
Ekman, Paul 6
&nbs
p; emotion
anxiety as 5–7
and post-traumatic stress disorder 104
emotional reasoning 27
environmental factors 38–44
in obsessive-compulsive disorder 101
in social phobia 70
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