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Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) is commonly regarded to be the key anxiety disorder. How it acquired this position can be traced, to some extent, to the changes that have occurred over time in the development of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association which is the main tool used for diagnosis.2–5 This system, which continues to be developed by committee, has been through major changes in the course of successive versions.
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Montgomery, S.A. (2009). The changing concept of generalised anxiety disorder. In: Handbook of Generalised Anxiety Disorder. Springer Healthcare, Tarporley. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-908517-02-9_1
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