Panic Origins, Insight, and Treatment

by Warner, Brooke; Schmidt, Leonard; Levine, Peter A.

• ISBN13: 9781556433962
• ISBN10: 1556433964
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-14
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books

Summary

Panic is not a single state with only one set of feelings and predictable emotions. The essays and articles in this book span various disciplinespsychology, medicine, literature, and historytied together by the common thread of panic, including how it is manifested in culture, tradition, and experience, and its differing treatments. Included are original as well as previously published writings by Peter A. Levine, Paul Pitchford, and Kim Newman.

Author Biography

Brooke Warner is the publisher of She Writes Press and president of Warner Coaching Inc. She is a regular Huffington Post blogger and a master teacher of memoir who co-leads the popular course "Write Your Memoir in Six Months." Her expertise is in traditional and new publishing. She sits on the boards of the Independent Book Publishers Association, the National Association of Memoir Writers, and the San Francisco Bay Area Book Festival. Her website has been named by The Write Life as one of the Top 100 Best Websites for Writers. Warner lives and works in Berkeley, California.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Peter A. Levine
Editors' Introductions
Leonard J. Schmidt	xiii
Brooke Warner	xvi
ORIGINS	1	(164)
Historical Instances of Panic	5	(10)
Daniel Ussishkin
Tracing the Roots of Panic to Prenatal Trauma	15	(12)
Franz Renggli
Panic, Biology, and Reason: Giving the Body Its Due	27	(22)
Peter A. Levine
Etiology of Panic Disorder	49	(20)
Ilona Jerabek
A Personal Account of Thyroid Disease with Panic Disorder	69	(26)
Leslie Berger Blumenberg
Phenomenology of Panic	95	(70)
Richard Grossinger
INSIGHT	165	(118)
A Lacanian Perspective on Panic and Fragmentation	167	(12)
Marshall Alcorn
The Isolation of Panic and the Panic of Isolation in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton	179	(20)
Colin Clarke
The Short Story in the Age of Anxiety	199	(22)
Robert Combs
Panic in the Cinema	221	(8)
Kim Newman
Munch, Agoraphobia, and the Terrors of the Modernizing Urban Landscape	229	(24)
Devon Hinton
Panic in Modern Music	253	(14)
Till M. Meyn
Going Back for the Little Ones: Understanding Panic in Sexuality	267	(16)
Selah Martha
TREATMENT	283	(114)
Conventional Drug Treatment of Panic Disorder	289	(8)
Atul C. Pande
There Really Is Something to Be Afraid of: A Body-Oriented Psychotherapy for the Treatment of Panic Disorder	297	(16)
Helen Resneck-Sannes
Body Approaches to the Treatment of Panic	313	(22)
Ron Robbins
Panic and Anxiety in Relation to Sleep	335	(16)
Michael Mufson
Sana Johnson-Quijada
Sexual Manifestations of Panic and Its Treatment	351	(22)
Marta Helliesen
Herbal Treatment for Panic Disorder and other Anxiety-Related Disorders	373	(8)
Andrew Gaeddert
Homeopathic Treatment of Panic Disorder and Anxiety-Related Disorders	381	(16)
Andrew Lange
Bibliography and References	397	(16)
About the Contributors	413	(10)
Credits	423