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The medicine’s potentiality in the area of anxiety treatment — history and the present day
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Abstract
Anxiety disorders belong to the most common psychiatric diagnosis. Methods of treating, removing or alleviating anxiety symptoms are nowadays numerous and allow to adjust particular method to individual patient’s conditions and needs. The aim of this article was to review those methods also from the historical point of view to present the changes and transformations they underwent over time.
Abstract
Anxiety disorders belong to the most common psychiatric diagnosis. Methods of treating, removing or alleviating anxiety symptoms are nowadays numerous and allow to adjust particular method to individual patient’s conditions and needs. The aim of this article was to review those methods also from the historical point of view to present the changes and transformations they underwent over time.
Keywords
anxiety disorders, treatment, history
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The medicine’s potentiality in the area of anxiety treatment — history and the present day
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Review paper
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55-62
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Bibliographic record
Psychiatria 2013;10(2):55-62.
Keywords
anxiety disorders
treatment
history
Authors
Anna Konopka
Michał Wroński
Jerzy Samochowiec
