title: Introduction to the special issue: anxiety disorders in cross-cultural perspective.
abstract: This special issue explores the cross-cultural variation in the presentation and generation of anxiety disorders. As a background review, in this Introduction, we illustrate how the cognitive theory of the generation of anxiety disorders explains how such cross-cultural variation occurs. We first show how the "catastrophic cognitions" theory applies to panic disorder and then suggest how the "catastrophic cognitions" theory applies to all anxiety disorders-and so explains the existence of profound cultural influence on the presentation and generation of the anxiety disorders.
authors.affiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA. devon_hinton@hms.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Devon E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Hinton
authors.forename: Mark H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Pollack
mesh_terms: D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D006801:Humans; D016584:Panic Disorder / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy
references.citation: Behav Res Ther. 1986;24(4):461-70
references.pmid: 3741311