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The Nature of Anxiety

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Malcolm H. Lader
Malcolm H. Lader*
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council; Institute of Psychiatry, University of London; The Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospital; Department of Pharmacology, University College, London; Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, London, S.E.5
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My choice of subject for this Memorial Lecture is one which I hope would have been approved of by the late Dr. Shorvon, who must have often applied his great therapeutic acumen to the treatment of anxious patients. I intend to present neither a compendious review of some aspect of anxiety nor a catalogue of recent research work. Rather, I shall outline some conceptual and practical problems met in investigating an emotion. Such problems have occupied medical men and also many philosophers, psychologists and theologians. I shall outline the types of anxiety, using the term loosely, and then attempt a scientific analysis ending with some speculative model-making.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 121 , Issue 564 , November 1972 , pp. 481 - 491
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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