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Depressive cognition in panic disorder: assessment of negative automatic thoughts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

M Hautekeete
Affiliation:
Labacolil III UFR de Psychologie, Université Charles-de-Gaulle, Lille III BP 149, 59653 Villeneuve-D'Ascq Cedex
D Servant
Affiliation:
Clinique de l'Anxiété, Unité de Psychopathologie et Alcoologie, CHU de Lille, 57 boulevard de Metz, 59037Lille Cedex, France
S Carton
Affiliation:
Labacolil III UFR de Psychologie, Université Charles-de-Gaulle, Lille III BP 149, 59653 Villeneuve-D'Ascq Cedex
C Lamirand
Affiliation:
Labacolil III UFR de Psychologie, Université Charles-de-Gaulle, Lille III BP 149, 59653 Villeneuve-D'Ascq Cedex
CH Allard
Affiliation:
Clinique de l'Anxiété, Unité de Psychopathologie et Alcoologie, CHU de Lille, 57 boulevard de Metz, 59037Lille Cedex, France
PJ Parquet
Affiliation:
Clinique de l'Anxiété, Unité de Psychopathologie et Alcoologie, CHU de Lille, 57 boulevard de Metz, 59037Lille Cedex, France
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Summary

Although panic disorder has been ranked as an ‘anxiety disorder', its close relationship to depression has been suggested in pharmacological and clinical studies. Validation of this hypothesis of similarity between panic and depression requires that their common psychological characteristics be clearly evidenced, especially from the cognitive/emotional standpoint. We assessed 13 depressive themes from Beck's Cognition Checklist, to explore negative automatic thoughts in three groups of patients defined, according to DSM III-R criteria, as: major depression (n = 16), panic disorder (n = 19), social phobia (n = 11). We found a strong similarity in the ordering and regrouping of the depressive themes, between depressive and panic disorder patients, and no similarity with social phobics. These results suggest that panic disorder cognitions may be closer to depressive cognition than social phobia cognition.

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Copyright © Elsevier, Paris 1992

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