Defensive mobilization in specific phobia: Fear specificity, negative affectivity and diagnostic prominence

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Summary

The exaggerated responsivity characteristic of specific phobia is limited to those patients for whom circumscribed fear is the most impairing condition and coincident with little additional affective psychopathology, and as specificphobia is superseded in severity by broad and chronic negative affectivity, defensive reactivity progressively diminishes.

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Published
2012-03-03
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Keywords

Psychology, Negative affectivity, Mobilization, Clinical psychology, Psychiatry

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