The Recognition and Treatment of Anxiety States

Abstract

Anxiety states are among the most prevalent conditions with which physicians everywhere have to deal. They are encountered in the form of (1) anxiety neuroses, (2) anxiety states with severe somatization and (3) anxiety states occasioned by deficits in the functioning of the organism, such as coronary disease, disfigurement or cancer. Many anxiety states can be adequately treated by the physician in general practice, using modified psychotherapeutic methods as well as such adjuvants as drugs and physiotherapy.