Panic Attacks: Klein's False Suffocation Alarm, Taylor and Rachman's Data, and Ley's Dyspneic-Fear Theory

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 83-

  Ley, Ronald ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ASPHYXIA; DYSPNEA; FEAR; HUMAN; NOTE; PANIC; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ASPHYXIA; DYSPNEA; FEAR; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PANIC DISORDER;

EID: 0029687638     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1996.01830010085012     Document Type: Letter

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