Adult Agoraphobia and Childhood Separation Anxiety: Using Children’s Literature to Understand the Link
Abstract
Children’s separation-anxiety stories are popular and may serve as a guide to aiding children in the mastery of separation anxiety. The link is made between adult-panic-disorder-with-agoraphobia patients and a history of childhood separation problems. Three such stories are examined, and their eight characteristics delineated. Three case studies are interspersed throughout the paper.
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