Anxiety disorders no more?
OBJECTIVE
The aim of this article was to critically examine options for the future classification of the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) group of anxiety disorders.


CONCLUSIONS
There is a strong trend towards the narrowing of the current DSM group of anxiety disorders and to the adopting of a different name for it. A future conceptualization of the conditions currently classified as anxiety disorders will be useful to the extent that it espouses a longitudinal diagnostic approach and acknowledges a lack of clear boundaries between anxiety and related disorders.
Starcevic
Vladan
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Discipline of Psychological Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia. starcev@wahs.nsw.gov.au
D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003865:Major Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis