ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the newly created category of organic anxiety troublesome, as the term implies that all other types of anxiety symptoms or disorders are nonorganic. The interaction between symptoms of anxiety and symptoms of “low-grade” depression observed in dysthymia and cyclothymia of predominantly depressive type is equally unexplored. A. Jablensky reminds that the term anxiety is a source of semantic confusion because it encompasses different meanings in different languages. In Europe the task of creating order out of diagnostic chaos, in the absence of hard data, is the responsibility of prominent academicians, each of whom commands loyalty only in his or her own geographic area. Most clinical researchers would hesitate to regard the proven effectiveness of an anticonvulsant, Dilantin, in the management of ventricular ectopic rhythms either as a clarion call for the reclassification of cardiac arrhythmias or for regarding arrhythmia as an epilepsy equivalent.
