Talk Therapy: Effective Treatment for Panic Disorder

Experts from the American Psychiatric Association, are now accommodated in the revision of its guidelines on the latest findings about the significant effect of talk therapy for the management of the debilitating symptoms of panic in general disorder.
Barbara Milrod, associate attending physician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital – Weill Cornell Medical Center and associate professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, presented the successful 12-week course study, published in the American Journal of psychiatry.
With psychodynamic psychotherapy twice weekly therapy sessions are focused on the symptoms of panic disorder, intense anxiety, chest pain, palpitations and shortness of breath. The talk therapy also garners insight into the various unconscious factors that the reason why the state can be developed in the first place. The focus on these unconscious factors is the basic foundation of psychoanalysis.
Panic disorder is a serious disease that is usually in early adulthood without a clear cause. It is a type of anxiety disorder by unexpected and repeated episodes of intense fear with physical symptoms, chest pain, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, dizziness or stomach pain stress can be characterized. The condition is usually about important events in life that are potentially harmful as a college graduation, wedding, pregnancy, birth, class reunions, and leisure are combined. There is also some evidence of genetic predisposition, that is, if someone in your family has suffered panic disorder, it is likely that you can go through the same experience under stressful circumstances be viewed.
The new study involved 49 people with panic disorder. Using a standard scale for measuring and assessing panic symptoms, showed about 70%, significantly less anxiety and other anxiety symptoms, while only 39% of those shown to be involved, an increase in their symptoms.
The successful study paves the way for a much larger scale experiment to compare the effects of psychodynamic psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in people with panic disorder.
While psychodynamic psychotherapy aims to help people understand the underlying emotional meaning of their panic as they will minimize the symptoms of a time-limited CBT approach in order to change negative thinking and behavior.
According to Chicago-based psychoanalyst Dr. Mark Little, who is also the director of the Neuro-Psychoanalysis Foundation psychodynamic psychotherapy, a step toward the truly intense and debilitating symptoms of panic disorder is diffuse. “You need that (psychodynamic psychotherapy) in order for someone to work or working on deeper issues that have contributed to the symptoms in the first place to” adds Small.
Panic disorder can be treated. If one treatment does not work, there are other effective options are available. The research is yielding new, improved therapies that can help most people with the condition can lead to productive and fulfilling lives. Apart from therapy, medication such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are also prescribed and used as a therapeutic supplement.