Clinical: Websites on the treatment of phobias.(post-traumatic stress disorder)

Websites related to this week's Clinical Review, selected by Dr Keith Barnard.

IN-DEPTH INFORMATION

There seems to be no happy medium when it comes to information on phobias for medical professionals. The material is either totally superficial, it or goes into too much fine-print detail. This article veers towards the latter. The difficulty of finding decent, simple, GP-orientated information surprises me, and rather suggests that the problem of phobias is not taken seriously enough to warrant some decent presentations.

One thing this detailed account does give is a useful list of differential diagnoses. The pitfalls can be many and varied, and I …