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(Medical Psychiatry.) Edited by Jerrold F. Rosenbaum and Mark H. Pollack. 353 pp. New York, Marcel Dekker, 1998. $99.75. ISBN 0-8247-0216-6.

A 60-year-old man who had endured panic disorder during an earlier period of his life awoke with crushing substernal chest pain radiating down his arm and up to his jaw. Observing him diaphoretic, nauseated, and in pain, his wife called an ambulance. On his arrival at the Massachusetts General Hospital emergency ward, he suffered cardiac arrest. Resuscitated and admitted to the coronary care unit, he was informed by the house officer that he had survived a myocardial infarction. He sighed with relief, and his first words were, "Thank goodness — I thought my panic attacks were coming back."

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