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In the 17th century, Robert Burton (quoted in Herbert, 1975) commented in his Anatomy of Melancholy on the torment caused by phobic anxiety: “They that live in fear are never free, resolute, secure, merry, but in continual pain ... No greater misery, no rack, no torture like unto it.” Even then, anxiety was no new phenomenon, as we know from Hippocrates’ writings. Clearly, there has been plenty of time to solve the etiological mysteries of fears and phobias, time to unravel the complexities of that universal, debilitating condition called anxiety.
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Herbert, M. (1994). Etiological Considerations. In: Ollendick, T.H., King, N.J., Yule, W. (eds) International Handbook of Phobic and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents. Issues in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1498-9_1
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