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‘The Running Treatment’: A Preliminary Communication on a New use for an Old Therapy (Physical Activity) in the Agoraphobic Syndrome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Arnold Orwin
Arnold Orwin*
Affiliation:
Regional Behaviour Research Unit, Hollymoor Clinic, Hollymoor Hospital, Northfield, Birmingham 31 5EX and Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham
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Agoraphobia was the name given by Westphal (1871) to the fear of walking through streets and public places. The agoraphobic syndrome, which covers much else and includes fear of confined spaces, crowds, travelling and shopping, was carefully defined by Marks (1969). His full description and review revealed, perhaps surprisingly, that although the desire to escape rapidly from a feared situation has been clearly recognized in the literature, no detailed observation seems to have been made of the rate of locomotion in this condition.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 122 , Issue 567 , February 1973 , pp. 175 - 179
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1973 

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