PANIC

As comprehensive a book about panic as one could imagine. The subtitles indicate the three sections with specialists contributing scholarly essays on different aspects. The first part covers biology, prenatal trauma, etiology of panic disorder and an extensive essay by the publisher Richard Grossinger on the phenomenology of panic. Insights come from literature (Plath), art (Munch), music, cinema and psychoanalysis. And treatments deal with drugs, psychotherapy, body approaches, herbs and homeopathy.