Table of Contents

* Prologue: The Disorders of the Decade * Buried Secrets/Buried Lives: Two Case Histories * The Evolutionary Origins of Social Anxiety * The Drama of Social Phobia * Joining the Group at School and Work * Social and Sexual History * Social Fear in Children * Seeing and Being Seen * Trembling in the Wings * Self-Medication with Alcohol and Drugs * Diagnosis and Treatment

About the Author

John R. Marshall, M.D., is professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic there.

Reviews

General psychiatrist Marshall began counseling anxiety disorder patients in the mid-1980s. At that time, anxiety disorders were emerging as psychiatric conditions in their own right rather than symptoms of other disorders. Marshall's particular interest here is in social phobics (i.e., those whose lives are controlled by intense and abiding fears of social interaction). Combining theory, research findings, and clinical expertise with examples from the lives of socially phobic people, Marshall presents a very readable overview of the topic. He explains a wide spectrum of social phobias, including the fear of eating in public and imagined body ugliness. The appendix discusses other anxiety disorders. Recommended for public and academic libraries.-Carol R. Nelson, Ball State Univ. Lib., Muncie, Ind.