that patients expected that they would be free of all
anxiety following treatment (54%), successful
exposure would mean not having any panic or
anxiety (41%), and that more than reduction of
panic symptoms was needed in treatment (20%). In
addition, patients’ beliefs that therapists would
do all the work to make things better (53%),
disappointments with past therapists (33%), and
expecting that treatment would be brief and easy
(28%) were problems. Patients’ beliefs that they
need medication to reduce panic (49%) also
interfered with CBT. Finally, 20% of respondents
indicated that their patients believed that reduction
of panic symptoms was not enough.