Concise Guide to Anxiety Disorders

Abstract

Reviews the book by Hollander and Simeon (see record 2002-11008-000), which offers a guide to anxiety disorders that contains a wealth of information that should be useful to medical students, residents, and practicing psychiatrists. The review highlights the book's sections which cover epidemiology, diagnosis and differential diagnosis, course and prognosis, biological theories, psychological theories, somatic treatments, psychotherapy treatments, and combined treatments. The reviewer suggests that every student and resident would be well advised to obtain this pocket-sized book for easy access to clinically pertinent data, and claims that the critically selected references will lead the reader to a deeper understanding of the theoretical and practical issues concerning anxiety disorders. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved)