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Fear of AIDS: the Impact of Public Anxiety in Young People

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

C. Lewin  and
R. J. W. Williams
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Abstract

Two young adolescents are reported in whom fears of contracting AIDS were a prominent part of their clinical presentation. Public anxiety, specific developmental vulnerability, and exposure to the media information campaign about HIV infection and AIDS are discussed as factors in the genesis and precipitation of emotional disorder in these youngsters.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 153 , Issue 6 , December 1988 , pp. 823 - 824
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1988 

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