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Panic, Biology, and Reason: Giving the Body Its Due

By Peter A. Levine — 2003

My interest in the essential role played by bodily responses in the genesis and treatment of panic anxiety and trauma began quite accidentally in 1969. A psychiatrist, knowing of my interest in “mind/body healing”-a fledging arena at the time, had referred a young woman to see me. Nancy had been suffering from panic attacks for about two years.

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An Old Idea: What Ails the Body is Rooted in the Mind

The diagnosis and the treatment fit the era in which they occurred. It was the early 1950's, and the field of psychosomatic medicine — based on the notion that many diseases have their origins in emotional distress — was in its heyday.

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Barron H. Lerner
2006
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