Panic : origins, insight, and treatment / edited by Leonard J. Schmidt and Brooke Warner ; [foreword by Peter A. Levine].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A history of panic: from the god Pan to modern diagnosis / by Daniel Ussishkin -- Tracing the roots of panic to prenatal trauma / by Franz Renggli -- Panic, biology, and reason: giving the body its due / by Peter A. Levine -- Etiology of panic disorder: biological aspects / reprinted from Earth ops -- A Lacanian perspective on panic and fragmentation / by Marshall Alcorn -- The isolation of panic and the panic of isolation in the poetry of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton / by Colin Clarke -- The short story in the age of anxiety / by Robert Combs -- Panic in the cinema / by Kim Newman -- A phenomenology of panic / by Richard Grossinger -- Panic in modern music / by Till Meyn -- Panic attack-and-a-half: a personal struggle with panic disorder / by Roberta Gundersen -- Thyroid disease and panic disorder / by Leslie Berger Blumenberg -- Herbal treatment for panic disorder and other anxiety-related disorders / by Andrew Gaeddert -- Cognitive therapy treatment of panic disorder / by Helen Resneck-Sannes -- Homeopathic treatment of panic disorder and anxiety-related disorders / by Andrew Lange -- Sexual manifestations of panic and its treatment / by Marta Helliesen -- Panic and anxiety in relation to sleep / by M.J. Mufson -- Body approaches to the treatment of panic / by Ron Robins -- Healing panic with whole foods and conscious diet planning / by Paul Pitchford -- Conventional drug treatment of panic disorder / by Atul C. Pande.