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Prerequisite to the application of behavioral-psychological and pharmacological treatment strategies for different forms of anxiety disorders is the specification and validation of reliable diagnostic criteria. The need for reliable diagnostic criteria as well as for reliable diagnostic instruments and procedures has become even more imperative with the development of new biological treatment methods, suggested for the treatment of two subgroups of DSM-III anxiety disorders: panic disorder and agoraphobia with panic attacks. As shown by Jablensky (in press), clear diagnostic decisions, however, are not easily reached, given the fact that the classification of anxiety disorders is still controversial, and given the notorious difficulty of defining many anxiety-related symptoms.
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Wittchen, HU., Semler, G. (1986). Diagnostic Reliability of Anxiety Disorders. In: Hand, I., Wittchen, HU. (eds) Panic and Phobias. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71165-7_2
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