Forty-two patients with social phobia and twentyeight patients with panic disorder were studied. All patients were evaluated using the sturctured clinical interview for DSM-III-R (SCID). Social phobia and panic disorder patients were compared in terms of demographic variables and the scores obtained from the various scales. The social phobic patients had a greater percentage of men and single, and also showed an earlier age at onset and higher level of education than the panic disorder group. Compared to panic disorder patients, social phobic patients had significantly lower scores on measures of anxiety and somatization and higher scores on measures of interpersonal sensitivity. Social phobics reported significantly greater levels of disability in the area of work and social life than panic patients. We found significantly higher incidence of lifetime dysthymia for social phobics and significantly higher incidence of generalized anxiety disorder for panic patients. These findings are discussed in the view of results from earlier reports.