Table of Contents

THE NATURE AND DESCRIPTION OF PREVALENT PHOBIAS.
Social Phobia: A Cognitive Approach (A. Wells & D. Clark).
Agoraphobia (P. Salkovskis & A. Hackmann).
Blood-Injury-Injection Phobia (L.-G. Ost & K. Hellstrom).
Animal Phobias (S. Thorpe & P. Salkovskis).
Dental Phobias (G. Kent).
Water Phobia (R. Menzies).
Height Phobia (R. Menzies).
Accident Phobia (K. Kuch).
Claustrophobia (S. Rachman).
Atypical Phobias (R. McNally).
Specific Phobias in Children (T. Ollendick, et al.).
THE TREATMENT OF PHOBIAS.
Rapid Treatment of Specific Phobias (L.-G. Ost).
A Comparison of Behavioral and Cognitive Treatments of Phobias (M. Craske & M. Rowe).
The Use of Medication in the Treatment of Phobias (P. Hayward & J. Wardle).
GENERAL THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON AETIOLOGY AND MAINTENANCE.
A Conditioning Model of Phobias (G. Davey).
Evolutionary Models of Phobias (H. Merckelbach & P. de Jong).
Unconscious Pre-Attentive Mechanisms in the Activation of Phobic Fear (A. Ohman).
The Match-Mismatch Model of Phobia Acquisition (A. Arntz).
Information-Processing Approaches to Phobias (C. Cameron).
The Epidemiology of Fears and Phobias (T. Chapman).
Indexes.

About the Author

Graham C. Davey is Professor of Psychology at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK. He has been an active researcher in areas associated with anxiety and its disorders, especially pathological worrying, phobias, and perseverative psychopathologies generally. He has published his research in many high-impact international journals including Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Behavioral & Brain Sciences, Journal of Experimental Psychology, and Behaviour Research & Therapy. He has authored or edited a total of 11 books, including Davey, G.C.L. (1997) (Ed) Phobias: A handbook of theory, research and treatment, Chichester:Wiley,andDavey, G.C.L.&Tallis, F. (1994) (Eds) Worrying: Perspectives on theory, assessment and treatment, Chichester: Wiley. He was elected President of the British Psychological Society from 2002-2003.

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