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Anxiety Management Training for Anxiety States: Positive Compared with Negative Self-Statements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Elizabeth Ramm ,
Isaac Marks ,
Richard Stern  and
Sahika Yuksel
Elizabeth Ramm
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry and Maudsley Hospital
Isaac Marks
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry and Maudsley Hospital, London SE5 8AF
Richard Stern
Affiliation:
St George's Hospital, Tooting, London SW17 7DJ
Sahika Yuksel
Affiliation:
Capa Hospital, University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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Summary

Twelve patients complaining of chronic free-floating anxiety, usually also with panic attacks, were assigned at random to treatment by six hour-long sessions of anxiety-management training, either with positive or with negative self-statements, given over six weeks. Patients in both treatment conditions improved, with a small trend favouring positive over negative self-instruction, especially at follow-up. It is unclear how much self-instruction, rather than therapeutic attention or mere passage of time, accounted for the bulk of the modest improvement obtained.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 140 , Issue 4 , April 1982 , pp. 367 - 373
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1982 

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