title: Attachment and panic disorder.
abstract: A dysfunctional relationship between parents and children can influence cognitive and emotional development and contribute to the development of psychiatric disorders, particularly panic disorder (PD). With the aim of exploring childhood experiences of parenting in PD patients, we compared subjectively perceived climate and objective recall by administering the Parental Bonding Instrument and 10 adjunctive items to 22 out-patients and 22 matched controls. Our analysis showed that DSM-III-R-diagnosed PD patients reported their parents to be significantly less caring than did the control group, while there was no significant difference in objective recall of parenting experiences.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosciences, Psychiatry Section, University of Siena, Italy. fmenicucci@pramac.lifter.it
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pacchierotti
authors.forename: Letizia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bossini
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Castrogiovanni
authors.forename: Fulvio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pieraccini
authors.forename: Isabella
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Soreca
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Castrogiovanni
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D008875:Middle Aged; D009769:Object Attachment; D016584:Panic Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics; D019962:Reactive Attachment Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D012307:Risk Factors