Anxiety Disorders
Evidence-Based Reviews
Beyond the mirror: Treating body dysmorphic disorder
A multimodal approach appears most effective for this distressing disorder of imagined ugliness.
Evidence-Based Reviews
Help children and teens stop impulsive hair pulling
Simple tools—adhesive strips, stickers, and rubber balls—can relieve trichotillomania
Cases That Test Your Skills
Trichotillomania: A heads-up on severe cases
Since childhood, Ms. D has been compulsively pulling out and eating her hair. Multiple surgeries, financial hardships, and social isolation have...
Commentary
Skin picking: one teenager’s struggle
Evidence-Based Reviews
Hypnosis: Brief interventions offer key to managing pain and anxiety
Hypnosis can help patients safely examine traumatic experiences, then restructure how they think and feel about them.
Evidence-Based Reviews
Captive of the mirror: ‘I pick at my face all day, every day’
Liberate patients by changing their skin-picking habits and treating their impulsive urges
Evidence-Based Reviews
COPD: How to manage comorbid depression and anxiety
Psychiatrists can help oxygen-starved patients breathe more easily and get full benefit from medical treatments.
From the Editor
The truth about anxiety disorders
Evidence-Based Reviews
Germ warfare: Arm young patients to fight obsessive-compulsive disorder
A ‘toolbox’ of cognitive skills and medications can help children and adolescents reclaim their lives.
Evidence-Based Reviews
Break the ‘fear circuit’ in resistant panic disorder
Calming the brain’s overactive alarm network may require high medication dosages, intense cognitive therapy, or both.