Antianxiety Drugs: Clinical use in Psychiatry

摘要: Each year, millions of patients visit physicians seeking relief from tensions, fears, worries, anxieties, and depression. Most have found psychopharmacological agents, prescribed within the context supportive, ventilating, or nonexploratory, as well dynamic insight-oriented psychotherapy, most useful for alleviating these disturbing emotions. Psychopharmacological agents do not, course, represent a panacea all neurotic ills. They example, directly affect psychodynamic environmental factors responsible emotional problems; they not characterological personality side patient (Joyce, 1971). By relieving symptoms anxiety, tension, depression, however, often render less miserable able to cope with intrapsychic extrapsychic stress more appropriately.