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- Aetiology: Simple phobic neuroses‑
Psychoanalytic theory - the manifest fear is the symbolic representation of an unconscious conflict, i.e. the simple phobic neuroses represent some other...>more
- Clinical features: Simple phobic neuroses‑
Some specific object or situation causes the person unreasonable anxiety, e.g. spiders, dogs, heights, thunderstorms, darkness.
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- Differential diagnosis: Simple phobic neuroses - seldom present difficulties of differential diagnosis.
Agoraphobia - exclude: anxiety neuroses; social phobic neuroses-, depressive disorders; paranoid states.
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- Epidemiology: Simple phobic neuroses (include animal phobias)‑
Onset in childhood for animal phobias; onset in early adult life for other specific phobias.
More common among women.
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- Management: Physical‑
Anxiolytic drugs - provide some immediate relief of phobic symptoms in the short term.
Antidepressant drugs‑
Effective because of anxiolytic properties.
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- Prognosis: Simple phobic neuroses - among adults, severe cases have usually -persisted since childhood and continued for many years.
Agoraphobia - cases that have lasted for one year usually change...>more
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