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It seems useful to look back on this history while deliberations are being carried out about how anxiety will be presented in DSM-V.<\/jats:p>\n\t  <\/jats:sec>\n\t  <jats:sec id=\"S0033291708004625_sec_a002\">\n\t    <jats:title>Method<\/jats:title>\n\t    <jats:p>Drawing on the literature and our own research, we examined work that was carried out during and after the Second World War by a Research Branch of the United States War Department, by the Stirling County Study, and by the Midtown Manhattan Study. The differential influences of Meyerian psychobiology and Freudian psychoanalysis are noted.<\/jats:p>\n\t  <\/jats:sec>\n\t  <jats:sec id=\"S0033291708004625_sec_a003\" sec-type=\"results\">\n\t    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n\t    <jats:p>The instruments developed in the early epidemiologic endeavors used questions about nervousness, palpitations, sweating, trembling, shortness of breath, upset stomach, etc. These symptoms are important features of what the clinical literature called \u2018manifest\u2019, \u2018free-floating\u2019 or \u2018chronic anxiety\u2019. 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