01:830:340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
19 Nov 2020
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Chapter 6: anxiety disorders and obsessive compulsive disorder. Anxiety disorders are the most common type of disorder. They share similarities with major mood disorder. Both are defined in terms of negative emotional responses. Stressful life events seem to play a role in the onset of both depression and anxiety. Associated with the anticipation of immediate danger. The emotional experience is out of proportion to the threat. A relatively uncontrollable sequence of negative, emotional thoughts that are concerned with possible future threats or danger- self-talk . A shift in attention to a primary self-focus or a state of preoccupation. Anxiety and abnormal fears did not play a prominent role in psychiatric classification systems during the second half of the nineteenth century. Freud and his followers were responsible for some of the first extensive clinical descriptions of pathological anxiety states. The dsm-v approach to classifying disorders is based primarily on descriptive features, rather than etiological hypotheses.
