PSYCH 2AP3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Automatic Negative Thoughts, Panic Attack, Panic Disorder
27 Mar 2014
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
25 - 30% = lifetime prevalence: most common category of psych disorders. 16% of women and 9 % of men = annual prevalence. Cost 42. 3 billion in direct and indirect costs in 1990. Neurotic behaviour = maladaptive and self-defeating, but they aren"t out of touch with reality, incoherent or dangerous. Freud: neurosis - intrapsychic conflict produced significant anxiety, dsm 3 dropped the term neurosis. Anxiety; can"t specify the danger, unpleasant inner state where we think something bad will. Fear; clear and obvious source that most people would consider as real happen that wouldn"t be predictable from our actual circumstances. Basic fear and anxiety are highly conditionable: normal and adaptive but can lead to clinically significant fears and anxieties. Cognitive/subjective component - i"m going to die. Behavioural component - need to run away: fear. Instantaneous reaction to an imminent threat: panic attack. Fear/ panic occurs in the absence of obvious external danger. Accompanied by later cognitive feelings of impending doom.
