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Carl Salzman et Barry D. Lebowitz (éds.). Anxiety in the Elderly. Treatment and Research. New York: Springer Publishing Company, 1991, pp. 320.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2010

Philippe Cappeliez
Philippe Cappeliez
Affiliation:
Département de psychologie, Université d'Ottawa.
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Abstract

This volume published in 1991 contains the contributions of specialists in the field of geriatric psychiatry who met in 1989 to discuss the state of knowledge on the pathology of anxiety in the elderly. Written from a medical perspective, it contains 16 relatively short chapters divided into five sections which cover topics related to diagnosis, epidemiology, comorbidity, neurobiology, pharmacology, and pharmacological and psychotherapeutical treatments. The major weaknesses of the book reside in its atheoretical stance and its exclusive medical focus. We learn very little on the phenomenology and etiology of anxiety in the elderly, and on therapeutic interventions other than anxiolytics. Still it may be worth reading simply because there is such a derth of literature on anxiety in the elderly. Readers interested in the psychological research on this topic may consult the additional references cited.

Type
Book reviews/Comptes Rendus
Information
Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , Automne/Fall 1994 , pp. 416 - 418
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association on Gerontology 1994

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