ABSTRACT
My first encounter with your work was when I was in Cambridge, in 1986. I became aware of it through Martin Roth’s involvement in the Upjohn trial of alprazolam in panic disorder. Even then, in the UK, most clinicians weren’t prepared to accept that panic disorder was a real entity. Your name was there as the person who created the concept. Now I am hopeful that this book will get beyond the psychiatric profession and out on the streets and panic disorder is interesting here in that it’s come from nowhere to being one of the concepts that everybody, even the person on the street, knows about now.
