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Anxiety and Panic Disorder |
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The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook Edmund Bourne Bourne teaches specific skills for overcoming problems with panic, anxiety and phobias. There is information on the appropriate use of medications and herbal supplements. This is a practical and highly regarded resource on the treatment of anxiety. 2005, New Harbinger This book was a Self-Help Book Pick of the Month! Read David's full Book Review. |
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Anxiety Disorders and Phobias: A Cognitive Perspective Aaron Beck, et. al. The founder of cognitive therapy and two colleagues apply the concepts to the treatment of anxiety disorders and phobias. Part I explains how the complex symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder and phobias arise; Part II shows how distorted perceptions of threat and danger are corrected through cognitive restructuring, relaxation, and distraction techniques. 1990, Basic Books |
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Anxious 9 to 5: How to Beat Worry, Stop Second Guessing Yourself, And Work With Confidence Larina Kase, Joe Vitale, Martin M. Antony Anxiety, worry, perfectionism, self-defeating thoughts and fears of failure in the workplace can hold you back from achieving the success you deserve, despite how hard you work. This book offers simple and effective techniques to get your workplace anxiety under control once and for all so you can enjoy work and be more productive. 2006, New Harbinger |
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Beyond Anxiety and Phobia: A Step-by-step Guide to Lifetime Recovery Edmund Bourne True recovery from anxiety symptoms requires understanding the meaning of those symptoms and going deeper to face their underlying sources in a fundamental way. This book provides an array of strategies including alternative therapies such as herbs, yoga, massage, acupuncture and homeopathy; and addresses the impact of perfectionism and other personality issues. 2001, New Harbinger |
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Calming Your Anxious Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You From Anxiety, Fear and Panic Jeffrey Brantley and Jon Kabat-Zinn This compassionate book teaches the principle of mindfulness to relieve a wide range of stress-related conditions. Mindfulness is receptive, non-judgmental, present- moment awareness, a state of focusing attention only on the here and now. The book teaches skills for calming and relaxing the mind and body. 2003, New Harbinger |
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Coping with Anxiety: 10 Simple Ways to Relieve Anxiety, Fear, and Worry Edmund J. Bourne, Lorna Garano Anxiety affects 25 million people in the United States, and treatment can be difficult and daunting. This book takes a sensible, clinically based approach by teaching ten simple steps. The tips range from "thinking realistically" to "taking constructive coping actions" and include friendly exercises for combating a particluar aspect of anxiety. 2003, New Harbinger |
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Depressed and Anxious: The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Workbook for Overcoming Depression &
Anxiety Thomas Marra DBT begins with the assumption that psychological problems are the result of emotional responses that are in conflict. It integrates a range of therapeutic techniques to tease apart and resolve the competing internal needs and urges that generate anger, depression, and anxiety. Exercises focus on assisting readers to become more responsive to uplifting aspects of their environment and tolerant of unavoidable emotions. 2004, New Harbinger | ||
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Don’t Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks Reid Wilson This book offers an accessible and practical self-help program for reducing and eliminating incapacitating panic attacks. The author explains how attacks occur and provides a detailed five-step strategy for controlling the moment of panic. He shows how to use breathing exercises, focused thinking and mental imagery to elicit the body’s natural “Calming Response.” 1996, Perennial Currents |
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Embracing Fear: And Finding the Courage to Live Your Life Thom Rutledge Rutledge uses the F-E-A-R acronym to present his paradigm for dealing with fear: Face it; Explore it; Accept it; and Respond to it. Once we understand that which we fear, he says, we can live beyond its tyrannical control. This is a practical, engaging book, with examples from the author’s life as well as from his clinical practice. 2002, HarperSanFrancisco |
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An End to Panic: Breakthrough Techniques for Overcoming Panic Disorder Elke Zuercher-White A useful cognitive-behavioral handbook which focuses on changing thoughts, beliefs and behaviors to reduce anxiety. This highly regarded book for people with panic disorders teaches readers how to feel the symptoms of anxiety without the anxiety itself, and includes ways to cope with stress and conflict, fearful situations, as well as how to avoid relapse. 2000, New Harbinger |
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Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway Susan Jeffers Jeffers teaches a ten-step program to convert the negative emotions of fear, indecision and anger into power, action and love. She offers cognitive exercises and visualization techniques to help persons move beyond destructive fear. 1992, Fawcett |
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Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Steven C. Hayes This book offers a five-step plan for coping with painful emotions such as anxiety and depression. You can learn to engage with painful thoughts and feelings through step-by-step acceptance and mindfulness-based techniques, discovering how to let go of control, and develop compassion and flexibility. 2005, New Harbinger |
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Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic III Michelle Craske and David Barlow This book offers clinically proven treatments that address the cognitive, behavioral, physical and social aspects of anxiety. Self-assessment tests, forms for recording symptoms and personal stories are included. An excellent self-help approach for dealing with anxiety and panic. 2000, Graywind Publications |
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Natural Relief for Anxiety: Complementary Strategies for Easing Fear, Panic & Worry Edmund J.Bourne, Arlen Brownstein, Lorna Garano This user-friendly book offers a drug-free approach to overcoming anxiety. It outlines an alternative and more lasting way to control anxiety by making gentle, natural changes to your lifestyle that promote wellness in mind and body. 2004, New Harbinger |
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The Panic Attack Recovery Book Shirley Swede and Seymour Jaffe This seven-step, drug-free program written jointly by a physician and a recovered sufferer explains what goes on in the body when panic disorder strikes and how it can be controlled. With behavioral techniques, fitness and nutrition plans and encouraging true stories this book offers hope to people with panic disorder, agoraphobia, and other anxiety-related conditions. 2000, New American Library |
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10 Simple Solutions to Panic: How to Overcome Panic Attacks, Calm Physical Symptoms, &
Reclaim Your Life Martin M. Antony, Randi E. McCabe The authors provide easy to follow guidelines that will help sufferers of panic attacks better understand their condition and gain control over it. Exercises, empowering suggestions for dealing with specific situations, and self-care tools for setting and achieving short and long-term goals are included. 2004, New Harbinger |
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Thoughts & Feelings: Taking Control of Your Moods and Your Life: A Workbook of Cognitive Behavioral Techniques Matthew McKay, Patrick Fanning, Martha Davis This book offers a simple and easy to understand discussion of how to use the principles and techniques of cognitive behavioral therapies to help control anxiety, depression, moods and build self-esteem in your life. 1998, New Harbinger | ||
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Transforming Anxiety: The Heartmath Solution to Overcoming Fear And Worry And Creating Serenity Doc Childre, Deborah Rozman At the core of the Heart Math method is the idea that our thoughts and emotions affect our heart rhythms. By focusing on positive feelings such as appreciation, care, and compassion you'll learn to engage your heart to bring your emotions, body, and mind into balance. 2006, New Harbinger |
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Worry: Controlling It and Using It Wisely Edward Hallowell Hallowell offers a practical approach for dealing with destructive patterns of worrying. His approach helps worriers move beyond self-blame to awareness and positive action. 1997, Pantheon |
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The Worry Cure: Seven Steps to Stop Worry from Stopping You Robert L. Leahy Do you suffer from the "what-if disease"? This book is a systematic, accessible self-help guide to gaining control over debilitating anxiety. It includes a section on self-assessment and a seven-step worry-reduction plan. 2005, Harmony |
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