208 Pages
by
Psychology Press
208 Pages
by
Psychology Press
192 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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Theorists are increasingly arguing that it is fruitful to approach anxiety from the cognitive perspective, and the empirical evidence supports that contention. The cognitive perspective is also adopted in this book, but the approach represents a development and extension of earlier ones. For example, most previous theories and research have been based on anxiety either in clinical or in normal... Read more
Introduction. Theories of Anxiety and Cognition. Theoretical Framework. Attentional Processes. Comprehension and Memory. Worry. General Processing. Summary.
Biography
Michael W Eysenck
Despite having such a lengthy history to contend with, this book manages to break new ground in a number of directions...Eysenck explores the relationship between normal and clinical anxiety in considerable detail and rounds it off by presenting his own model of why some individuals are vulnerable to becoming clinically anxious...Emerging from an intelligent and considered review [of his research] is Eysenck's suggestion that some individuals are `hypervigilant to threat in their environment'. - Times Higher Education Supplement, 1993; Review by Tim Dalgleish
