ABSTRACT
It is only recently that medication has become viewed as an acceptable treatment for social anxiety disorder (SAD). At the time of the first drug trials for SAD in the 1980s, many clinicians believed that this condition was best conceptualized as a personality disorder and that pharmacological intervention was therefore inappropriate. Similarly, in a survey of laypersons, only 4% of respondents stated that psychopharmalogical drugs were a therapeutic option for SAD (Tables 1 and 2), while 68% believed that psychological interventions were helpful (1).
