The Etiology of Phobias
Open Access
- 1 March 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of General Psychiatry
- Vol. 59 (3) , 242-248
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.59.3.242
Abstract
AS PROPOSED by the "stress-diathesis" model,1 most psychiatric disorders are thought to arise as a result of environmental adversity experienced by predisposed individuals. The goal of this report is to evaluate the validity of this model for phobias.Keywords
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