The concept of generalized anxiety disorder: Between the too narrow and too wide diagnostic criteria

Psychopathology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 5-11

  Starcevic, Vladan ^a,b   Bogojevic, Goran ^a  

^a Institute of Mental Health   (Yugoslavia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGORAPHOBIA; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANIC; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANIC DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0032935319     PISSN: 02544962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000029060     Document Type: Article

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