Panic: Origins, Insight, and Treatment

From: American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis | Date: April 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Panic: Origins, Insight, and Treatment. L. J. Schmidt and B. Warner, Editors. Berkeley. CA: North Atlantic Books. (2002). 425 pages. $19.95 (paper back).

This book is an edited anthology that aims at addressing the emotion of panic in its many manifestations. The book's purpose is to conduct an interdisciplinary investigation into this complex emotion in its various guises. The contributors have been drawn from various disciplines: art, poetry, literature, cinema, music, anthropology, bodywork, biology, sex therapy, psychiatry, and psychology.

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