Book Review February 15, 2005

The Clinical Manual of Anxiety Disorders

David A. Goldberg, MD

J Clin Psychiatry 2005;66(2):271-272

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The Clinical Manual of Anxiety Disorders, edited by Dan J. Stein, M.D., Ph.D., is a collection of chapters on the diagnosis and treatment of anxiety disorders with a focus on recent clinical research of interest to the practicing clinician. It is organized by specific DSM-IV-TR diagnostic categories, and each chapter follows the same sequence: Phenomenology (including symptoms, associated features, and epidemiology), Assessment(including differential diagnosis and assessment measures),Pathogenesis (including neurochemistry, neuroanatomy, and genetics), Pharmacotherapy, and Psychotherapy.’ ‹