“An attack of acute loneliness” — a patient with panic attacks describes his condition. To this we can add: a rolling fear of death, combined with physical symptoms (dizziness, heart palpitations, nausea) — and all this is inexplicable, sudden, unreasonable. Unpredictability reinforces fear. And now a group of Italian psychologists is conducting a study that should reveal the invisible origins of this disorder. And not only individual ones, but also those that are built into social relations, into the collective experience of the meaning of being — or its loss. The result of their work is a new collection of articles: they are devoted to various aspects of treatment, including such an aspect rarely discussed in psychotherapy as pharmacological support and its impact on the psychotherapist-patient tandem.
MIGTIK, IOI, 264 p., 2015