[Clinician' emotional resonance as investigation tool: development and preliminary validation of a questionnaire].

Aims: A robust psychopathological and psychotherapeutic tradition underscores the importance of the clinician's feelings in the assessment and therapeutic process. Our aim is to develop an instrument to evaluate psychiatrist' experience induced by each patient. This paper describes the development and preliminary validation of this instrument.

[Long-term course of treatment strategies in panic disorder: an update narrative review 1999-2010].

Panic disorder (PD) represents an insidious, often chronic, recurrent and relapsing illness. Although studying PD is a topical subject because it affects both treatment costs and patients' quality of life, the literature demonstrates that long-term studies are rare and not very systematic. Even if many short-term studies (within 6 months) show that the present treatment strategies have very good results, the outcome data in the long- term suggest that a significant rate of patients with PD, in remission at the end of a treatment, relapses during the follow-up, so that there is the need to find treatment strategies to maintain the remission achieved in the short-term as long as possible.