This; invention provides a method of treating obesity, generalized anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, late luteal phase dysphoric disorder (premenstrual, syndrome), attention deficit disorder, with and without hyperactivity, Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, bulimia nervosa or Shy Drager Syndrome in a: mammal by administering to the mammal an effective amount of a hydroxycycloalkanephenethyl amine of the following structural formula: in which A is a moiety of the formula where the dotted line represents optional unsaturation; R.sub.1 is hydrogen or alkyl; R.sub.2 is alkyl; R.sub.4 is hydrogen, alkyl, formyl, or alkanol; R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 are, independently, hydrogen, hydroxyl, alkyl, alkoxy, alkanoyloxy, cyano, nitro, alkylmercapto, amino, alkylamino, dialkylamino, alkanamido, halo, trifluoromethyl, or taken together, methylene dioxy; R.sub.7 is hydrogen or alkyl; and n is 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4;or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: