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History and epidemiology of panic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

J Angst
J Angst*
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Psychiatric University Hospital, PO Box 68, CH-8029, Zürich, Switzerland
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The conceptualisation and investigation of panic disorder have developed on two different axes, medical and psychological, for more than 100 years. In medicine, reports of acute anxiety attacks with cardiac, circulatory, and respiratory symptoms date back to the French Revolution, and terms such as “soldier's heart”, “neurocirculatory neurasthenia”, or “hyperventilation syndrome” have been used to describe them. In psychological medicine, anxiety attacks were first reported by Domrich in 1849. These attacks, which were thought to be caused by strong emotions, were classified mainly within neurasthenia, until Freud created the concept of anxiety neurosis in 1895.

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European Psychiatry , Volume 10 , Issue S2: Satellite Symposium to the 7th Congress of the Association of European Psychiatrists , 1995 , pp. 57s - 59s
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Copyright © Elsevier, Paris 1995

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