Perceptions of Phobia and Phobics The Quest for Control

Name: Perceptions of Phobia and Phobics The Quest for Control
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ISBN: 9780124859609

ISBN-10: 0124859607

ISBN-13: 9780124859609

Edition: 1993

Authors: Beulah McNab

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Perceptions of Phobia and Phobics connects perceptual theory to understanding phobia, relating it both to clinical experience and quantitative experimental results. The book gives a general treatment of contemporary theories of perception on concepts of control, and discusses the question of information actually available to phobic patients and normal persons in situations that have been clinically described as phobogenic. The book begins by tracing the historical roots in phobia, arguing for a more multidimensional approach in understanding the disorder. It then gives a more general treatment of contemporary theories of perception and presents the case of reconciling the representational…

Book details

List price: $235.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Publication date: 7/30/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 253
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Theoretical Issues: Concepts of Control in Theories of Perception


Psychodynamic Conceptions of Neurosis and the Origins of Phobia


The World is all that is the Case: Drawing the Skeins Together


An Empirical Inquiry: The Enemy Without: The Information Picked Up by Phobic and Normal Persons Under Stationary Conditions


The Enemy Within: Strategies of Perceptual Control? When Control Fails: Perceptual Disorientation, Derealization, and Depersonalization


A Little Intermezzo on the Experience of Time


Children of Space and Time


General Discussion


Summary


Intercorrelations Between Construct Components for the Four Tunnelphobic Patients in Study 1


Means and Standard Deviations for the Different Variables in Studies II-V, Mean Z-Scores for Different Subgroups Manifesting Different Strategies


Items of the Perceptual Disorientation


References


Author Index


Subject Index