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Anxiety states (anxiety neurosis): a review.

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I. Marks, M. Lader
The Journal of nervous and mental disease

An anxiety state is a cluster of symptoms based on fear, the source of which is not recognized by the patient, and may be sustained, but more often is episodic from a few minutes to hours or days.

Abstract

An anxiety state is a cluster of symptoms based on fear, the source of which is not recognized by the patient. The anxiety may be sustained, but more often is episodic from a few minutes to hours or days. The chief symptoms are those of anxiety and its physical concomitants in the absence of other i