Year: 2009
Type: editorial
Abstract: This special issue explores the cross-cultural variation in the presentation and generation of anxiety disorders. As a background review, in this Introduction, we illustrate how the cognitive theory of the generation of anxiety disorders explains how such cross-cultural variation occurs. We first show how the "catastrophic cognitions" theory applies to panic disorder and then suggest how the "catastrophic cognitions" theory applies to all anxiety disorders-and so explains the existence of profound cultural influence on the presentation and generation of the anxiety disorders.
Source: CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics
Authors: Devon E. Hinton, Mark H. Pollack
Institutions: Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1989580815