Fear circle
The Anxiety Circle is a model for understanding anxiety and anxiety disorders that is used in their non-drug therapy. It has proven useful to explain this model to patients in order to improve their understanding of the processes and to be able to use them therapeutically. The fear circle goes back to a publication by Hans-Ulrich Wittchen and others in 1993.
The parts perception, thoughts, fear, physical changes and physical symptoms form the fear circle. In the case of an anxiety disorder, the symptoms of anxiety can be set in motion at any point in this circle, and a vicious circle arises that builds up. The aim of therapy is to break through it . The aim is not to remove fear, because it is an important and normal reaction in the body that goes away by itself and only lasts for a short time. The aim is to prevent the build-up, which leads to impairment of those affected and thus avoid sensitization to fear .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Siegfried Kasper, Hans-Peter Volz (Ed.): Psychiatry and Psychotherapy compact: The entire specialist knowledge. , 6.2.7 Therapy , 3., revised. Ed., Thieme, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-13-168233-8 .
- ↑ a b Hans-Ulrich Wittchen: Panic counselor: what you always wanted to know about the treatment of panic disorders. Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers, 1997, ISBN 978-3-8055-6438-0 , pp. 17-18.
- ↑ Markus T. Gastpar, Siegfried Kasper, Michael Linden: Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-70916-068-8 , pp. 172-173.
literature
- Hans-Ulrich Wittchen: Fear patient seminar: how do I inform my patients about fear? Karger 1993, ISBN 3-8055-5765-5 .