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Emotional Processing in Etiology and Treatment Edited by BARBARA OLASOV ROTHBAUM THE GUILFORD PRESS New York London © 2006 The Guilford Press A Division of Guilford Publications, Inc. 72 Spring Street, New York, NY 10012 www.guilford.com All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher. Printed in the United States of America This book is printed on acid-free paper. Last digit is print number: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Pathological anxiety : emotional processing in etiology and treat- ment / edited by Barbara Olasov Rothbaum. p. ; cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-59385-223-1 (alk. paper) 1. Anxiety—Treatment. 2. Cognitive therapy. 3. Imagery (Psychology) I. Rothbaum, Barbara Olasov. [DNLM: 1. Anxiety Disorders—therapy. 2. Anxiety Disorders —etiology. 3. Anxiety Disorders—physiopathology. 4. Cognitive Therapy—methods. 5. Fear—psychology. 6. Imagery (Psycho- therapy)—methods. WM 172 P297 2005] RC531.P38 2006 616.85′2206—dc22 2005010330 About the Editor Barbara Olasov Rothbaum, PhD, is a tenured Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Trauma and Anxiety Recovery Program at Emory Univer- sity Schoolof Medicine.Dr.Rothbaum specializesinresearchonthetreat- ment of individuals with affective disorders, particularly anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). She has won both state and national awards for her research, and is an invited international speaker within her field. She has published numerous journal articles, book chapters, and booksonthetreatmentofPTSD,andisaDiplomateinBehavioralPsychol- ogy of the American Board of Professional Psychology. Currently, Dr. Rothbaum serves as President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), and is a former Associate Editor of the Journal of TraumaticStress.Sheisapioneerintheapplicationofvirtualrealitytothe treatment of psychological disorders. Dr. Rothbaum had the pleasure of working with Dr. Edna B. Foa in Philadelphiafrom1986to1990and hascontinuedtocollaboratewithDr. Foa over the years. v CCoonnttrriibbuuttoorrss Contributors Laura B. Allen, MA, Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts David H. Barlow, PhD, Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts Evelyn Behar, MS, Department of Clinical Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania T. D. Borkovec, PhD, Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania Shawn P. Cahill, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania David M. Clark, PhD, Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom Bruce N. Cuthbert, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota Jonathan R. T. Davidson, MD, Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Program, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina Anke Ehlers, PhD, Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom Norah C. Feeny, PhD, Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio vii viii Contributors Edna B. Foa, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Martin E. Franklin, PhD, Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Elizabeth A. Hembree, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Jonathan D. Huppert, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Terence M. Keane, PhD, National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts Peter J. Lang, PhD, Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Michael R. Liebowitz, MD, Anxiety Disorders Clinic, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York John S. March, MD, MPH, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Duke University Child and Family Study Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina Andrew Mathews, PhD, MRC Senior Scientist, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom Richard J. McNally, PhD, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Lisa M. McTeague, MS, Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida David Riggs, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Barbara Olasov Rothbaum, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Trauma and Anxiety Recovery Program, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia Katherine Shear, MD, Bereavement and Grief Program, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Helen Blair Simpson, MD, PhD, Anxiety Disorders Clinic, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York PPrreeffaaccee Preface The understanding and treatment of anxiety disorders has advanced rap- idly in the past 10 years. Particularly important advances include the com- parison of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy and, in some cases, the combination of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy. Almost all mental healthprofessionalscomeintocontactwithpatientssufferingfromanxiety disorders, and this volume addresses the theoretical, assessment, and prac- tical treatment issues likely to touch the professional lives of researchers and practitioners alike. The considerable progress made in psychotherapy for these debilitat- ingconditionslargelyhingesonEdnaB.Foa’stheoreticalandclinicalwork onexposuretherapy,firstinobsessive–compulsivedisorder(OCD),thenin posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and more recently in social phobia. Sheisadistinguishedscholar,teacher,andclinicalresearcherinpsychologi- cal science, particularly within the anxiety disorders. This volume results in large part from a conference held in May 2004 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in honor of Professor Foa. Many of the au- thorsofchaptersinthisbookwerepresentersatthatmeeting.However,we have included chapters by many more authors in order to round out this volumetocoveralloftheanxietydisordersandtopresentthelatestinthe- ory and treatment of pathological anxiety, especially the contribution of emotional processing theory to current thinking. The contributors collec- tively summarize the state of the art in the anxiety disorders field, identify gaps in our knowledge, and stimulate future steps for clinicalresearch and the dissemination of empirically supported interventions. Ourlistofauthorsisaninternational“who’swho”inthefieldofanx- iety,andweareproudtopresentthisvolumetoyou.Asitwasinlargepart theresultofatributetoEdnaFoa’slifetimeofworkinthearea,Ibeginthe book with a brief history of her life. EdnaB.FoawasborninHaifa,Israel,onDecember28,1937,andre- ceived her undergraduate education in Israel, coming to the United States for her graduate education in 1966. Her entire career as an academic pro- fessional has been spent in Philadelphia, first at Temple University, then at ix x Preface theMedicalCollegeofPennsylvania,and,since1998,attheDepartmentof Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. In 1979, she founded the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety, where, with the collaboration of many colleagues, she has been conducting her research and clinical activities. Edna Foa was drawn to psychology as an adolescent, when she discovered thewritingsofSigmundFreudandbecamefascinatedwithpsychoanalysis. Aftergraduating fromhighschool,shewenttoanormalschooltotrainto work with delinquent children. Her teacher of psychology there was a trained psychoanalyst who encouraged her to write her final thesis on the Freudian explanation of childhood delinquency. Afterworkingfor2yearsinaboardingschoolfordelinquentchildren, she continued to study psychology at Bar-Ilan University, where she re- ceivedherBAin1962.AtBar-Ilan,herclinicalpsychologyteachersallrep- resented psychoanalytic or psychodynamic orientations; none of them thought that psychotherapy could or should be studied empirically. How- ever, at Bar-Ilan Foa was also exposed to research in experimental and so- cialpsychologyandbecameextremelyinterestedbothinthescienceofpsy- chology and in empirical research. This interest was fostered by her late husband, Uriel G. Foa, who was then the chair of the university’s Depart- ment of Psychology and a distinguished researcher in social psychology. Herfirstcontactwithbehaviortherapyandbehaviormodificationoc- curredattheUniversityofIllinois,whereshereceivedherMAin1970under thesupervisionofO.HobartMowrer.Inthe1960s,theclinicalprogramin theDepartmentofPsychologyatUrbanawasoneofthestrongholdsofbe- havior therapy and modification; its faculty included Leonard Ullmann, LeonardKrasner,andGordonPaul,tonameonlyafew.There,Foafirstbe- cameacquaintedwiththeworkofJosephWolpeandwiththeintegrationof experimentalpsychologyconceptsintopsychopathologyandtreatment.Her educationalexperienceattheUniversityofIllinois,togetherwithUrielFoa’s mentoring in research methodology, marked the beginning of her professional career. AftercompletingherPhDin1970attheUniversityofMissouriatCo- lumbia, she was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the National In- stitute of Mental Health to work with Wolpe at Temple University, the mecca of behavior therapy at the time. There she had the opportunity to meetleadersinthefield,manyofwhominfluencedherconceptualandem- pirical work. Of particular importance for her was the influence of Peter Lang and Stanley Rachman.

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Bringing together prominent researchers and practitioners, this authoritative volume describes significant recent advances in understanding and treating anxiety that are grounded in emotional processing theory and the seminal work of Edna Foa. Current etiological perspectives are explained; effectiv
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