Social phobia : an interpersonal approach /
"Social phobia is a disorder involving an intense fear of being judged by others and it affects the lives of many people. This book takes a critical stance towards the received view of social phobia as a disease of sorts, characterized by abnormal anxiety and caused by an inner mental or physic...
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. The interpersonal approach. 1. Social phobia in interpersonal perspective: a conceptual framework and theoretical statement
- Part II. What is social phobia and what is its nature? 2. The received view: social phobia construed as a disorder (disease) of anxiety ; 3. The interpersonal outlook: social phobia construed as an extended fearful interpersonal pattern
- Part III. What causes social phobia? 4. Reductive-dualism I: social phobia as a consequence of bodily (brain) defects ; 5. Reductive-dualism II: social phobia as a consequence of mental (cognitive) defects ; 6. Causality at the interpersonal level: a multi-causal analysis
- Part IV. Applications of the interpersonal approach. 7. Assessment and functional analysis ; 8. Treatment: undoing and overhauling social phobia
- Part V. Conclusions. 9. Concluding remarks.