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Gann, E. (1992). Panic. The Course of a Psychoanalysis: By Thorkil Vanggaard. New York/London: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1989. 144 pp.. Psychoanal Q., 61:495-497.

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(1992). Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 61:495-497

Panic. The Course of a Psychoanalysis: By Thorkil Vanggaard. New York/London: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1989. 144 pp.

Erik Gann Author Information

Thorkil Vanggaard is not likely to be a name familiar to most American psychoanalysts, even though he is a foremost senior psychiatrist in Copenhagen; he spent part of his long career in this country while doing psychoanalytic training at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. In this slim volume, he presents the clinical record of an old case and proffers an argument for the psychotherapeutic approach to a clinical entity which is now regarded in this country in general psychiatric circles as an almost purely biological phenomenon, the treatment of which requires primarily pharmacological intervention—so-called "panic disorder."

It is not clear whether Vanggaard intended this report more for a psychoanalytic or for a psychiatric audience. The former group will likely find this effort to be an enjoyable, though not profound, clinical account, which raises indirectly some fascinating questions, albeit without really tackling the theoretical issues involved. They are not trivi

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