Meet the editors

Robert L. Woolfolk, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Philosophy at Rutgers University. He has served on the faculties of Princeton University and the University of Texas at Austin. He has published numerous papers and several books on psychotherapy, psychopathology, and the philosophical foundations of psychology. A practicing clinician for nearly five decades, Dr. Woolfolk has sought in both his work with patients and his schol-

arly endeavors to integrate the scientific and humanistic traditions of psychotherapy. He is the author of *The Cure of Souls* and *The Value of Psychotherapy: The Talking Cure in an Age of Clinical Science*, and the coauthor of *Stress, Sanity, and Survival*  and *Treating Somatization: A Cognitive Behavioral Approach*.

Dr. Allen is Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and a licensed clinical psychologist. She completed her BA at Dartmouth College and graduate degrees (MS and PhD in Clinical Psychology) at Rutgers University. She spent the majority of her academic career developing and studying the efficacy of various treatments for depression, anxiety, and somatic symptom disorders. She

received grant funding from the National Institutes of Health and various pharmaceutical companies to study treatments for depression, somatization, and fibromyalgia. Her findings and interpretations of research outcomes have been published in numerous articles, book chapters, and books.

Dr. Federico Durbano received a degree in Medicine and specialized in Psychiatry in Milan. He has had different work experiences in a number of hospitals (Milan "Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico," Treviglio, Melegnano, and Fatebenefratelli), where he achieved significant career milestones. He is now the Director of the Psychiatric Unit in Melzo Hospital—ASST Melegnano e della Martesana—and Vice Director of the Mental Health and Sub-

stance Dependence Department at the same ASST. He has had teaching assignments from the University of Milan (Nursing School) and the University of Castellanza (Master in Criminology). He has attended more than 70 local and national congresses and courses as an invited speaker, and has published more than 160 papers in national and international journals and books. He also works as a technical advisor to the court in the field of forensic psychiatry.

Floriana Irtelli, psychoanalyst, psychotherapist, member of the Italian Society of Psychoanalysis of Relationships, has been lecturing for several years at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy. She has worked at the Fatebenefratelli Hospital, Milan, performing scientific research and clinical activities. She is the coauthor of *A Fresh Look at Anxiety Disorders and Psychopathy: New Updates on an Old Phenomenon*, and has

published articles for the *Journal of Affective Disorders, Journal of Research in Psycho-*

*therapy*, and *Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing*. She has participated in numerous conferences, seminars, and congresses, such as the 2015 World Congress of Psycho-Oncology. She is the author of *Illuminarsi di Ben-essere, Familiar-mente, Contemporary Perspectives on Relational Wellness, Psychoanalysis and the Modern Family*, and the editor of *Psychosis, Biopsychosocial and Relational Perspectives.*

Contents

**Section 1**

Concepts

**Section 2**

*by Martin L. Vargas*

The Mental Health of Combatants

*by Robert L. Woolfolk*

Hormones: A Long and Crucial History

**Preface III**

Psychopathology: An International, Interdisciplinary Perspective **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 7** Evidence for Link Between Mental Disorders and in Utero Exposure to Synthetic

**Chapter 3 23**

**Chapter 4 43**

**Chapter 5 61**

**Chapter 6 75**

Anxiety as Modulator of Life **93**

**Chapter 7 95**

Prevalence and Treatment of Anxiety Disorders Comorbidities in a Clinical Romanian Sample of Children and Adolescents with Psychiatric Disorders

*Renata Barreto Fernandes de Almeida, Rossana Carla Rameh-de-Albuquerque,* 

Neuroscience-Based Anthropological Psychiatry (NBAP): Ten Introductory

Introductory Chapter: New Directions in the Study of Psychopathology

*by Marie-Odile Soyer-Gobillard, Laura Gaspari and Charles Sultan*

Cocaine and Its Variations in Forms of Presentation and Addiction *by Antonio Gomes de Castro Neto, Magda da Silva Figueiroa,* 

*Iandê dos Santos Gomes de Moura and Solange Aparecida Nappo*

*by Andrey Soloviev, Elena Ichitovkina and Marina Zlokazova*

*by Elena Predescu, Anna Boglarka Asztalos and Roxana Șipoș*

A Meta-Analysis of Sleep Disturbances in Panic Disorder

*by Geneviève Belleville and Alenka Potočnik*
