Clarence, Lesley2017-06-082017-06-081997http://hdl.handle.net/10539/22821A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of health sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science (Med)Physiological anxiety symptoms are experienced as an overwhelming panic attack when the person cognitively interprets them as such. Fear is the emotion initiating the cognitive perception of personal doom which becomes largely influential on the future process of a sufferer's panic disorder. (Abbreviation abstract)enPanic disorderFearThe role of fear in the length, process and cost of pre-diagnostic illness behaviour in panic disorder patientsThesis