Global panic reaction – A therapeutic approach to a world-wide economic crisis

Summary 

Drastic losses on the stock markets within short periods have been the subject of numerous investigations in view of the fact that they are often irrational. In a recently published model we reported about the world-wide phenomenon of Global panic reaction (GPR) [Sperling W, Bleich S, Reulbach U. Black Monday on stock markets throughout the world – a new phenomenon of collective panic disorder? A psychiatric approach. Med Hypotheses 2008;71(6):972–4], which illustrate typical psychiatric symptoms of panic disorder. We now complete this model by a therapeutic approach for the patient. Therefore the identification of a therapeutic regime “step by step” was necessary.