[Clinical regularities in the relapsing and continuing course of phobic disorders].
To evaluate clinical regularities of the development of phobic disorders with continuous and recurring course there were examined 67 patients with phobias. The duration of disease was from 5 to 50 years. There were 3 variants of relapsing and 4 variants of continuous course of phobic disorders taking into consideration either presence or absence of the tendency to their progression. In the group of relapsing patients 3% of the patients showed no tendency to progression. There was also a relapsing variant with a tendency to progression (6.0%). Continuous-undulating without tendency to progression (8.9%), continuous-undulating with a tendency to progression (19.4%), continuous-progressive (25.4%) and stationary (28.4%) variants. The authors emphasize that revealed peculiarities in the dynamics of phobic disorders with either presence or absence of the tendency to progression may help to improve the therapy of such states and to make more precise the prognosis of the disease.
Sergeev
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Shmilovich
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000150:complications; D018450:Disease Progression; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D011379:Prognosis; D012008:Recurrence; D013997:Time Factors
Klinicheskie zakonomernosti retsidiviruiushchego i zatiazhnogo techeniia fobicheskikh rasstroĭstv.