Zink is a clinical psychologist. Zink explains to his patient, Dave that the reason Dave is so prone to panic attacks after he walks up three flights of stairs is that Dave is oversensitive to sensations of physical arousal and tends to irrationally distort the meaning of these sensations as calamitous or disastrous. From reading the chapter, you know that Dr. Zink is actually describing the _____ of panic disorder to Dave.

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Dr. Zink is describing the catastrophic cognitions theory, which suggests that panic disorder arises from individuals having catastrophic interpretations of bodily sensations.

Zink Is a Clinical Psychologist