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Exposure In-Vivo with Panic Management for Agoraphobia: Treatment Rationale and Longterm Outcome

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During the 1970’s a series of international treatment studies, pioneered and led by British groups from London and Oxford, seemed to have established some of the best documented and validated, highly specific short-term treatments for a rather chronic illness in the whole field of psychotherapy research: exposure in-vivo for agoraphobia. Since the beginning of this decade, parallel to the introduction of DSM-III, an increasing amount of basic research and clinical studies on panic disorder, panic attacks and agoraphobia with panic attacks seems to question this empirical and experimental knowledge.

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  1. Behavior Therapy Outpatient Unit, Psychiatric University Clinic, Martinistr. 52, 2000, Hamburg-Eppendorf, Federal Republic of Germany

    Iver Hand M.D. (Professor of Psychiatry) (Professor of Psychiatry)

  2. Clinical Psychology, University of Mannheim, Schloβ, 6800, Mannheim, Federal Republic of Germany

    Hans-Ulrich Wittchen Ph.D., Dipl.-Psych. (Professor of Clinical Psychology) (Professor of Clinical Psychology)

  3. Unit for Evaluation Research, Max-Planck-Institut für Psychiatrie, Kraepelinstr. 10, 8000, München 40, Federal Republic of Germany

    Hans-Ulrich Wittchen Ph.D., Dipl.-Psych. (Professor of Clinical Psychology) (Professor of Clinical Psychology)

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Hand, I., Angenendt, J., Fischer, M., Wilke, C. (1986). Exposure In-Vivo with Panic Management for Agoraphobia: Treatment Rationale and Longterm Outcome. In: Hand, I., Wittchen, HU. (eds) Panic and Phobias. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71165-7_11

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