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This is an impressively thick (400+ pages) workbook that is most thorough in its approach to handling the sensations of panic, phobia, and anxiety. One of the exercises involves keeping a panic attack record for a two-week period, and another how to connect bodily symptoms with catastrophic thoughts. Exercise and relaxation are key, as are recognizing triggers. Key factors to Edmund J. Bourne's approach include: imagery desensitization, real life desensitization, and imagining a specific situation that causes fear and examining the worst possible outcomes. Through workbook exercises one can begin to plan confrontational experiences in advance, bring along a friend, and slowly let go of the need for control. This is a great book to keep around the house and thumb through, full of tests and charts and ways to measure progress. This is part of an invaluable series of anxiety-related books from the author, which includes BEYOND ANXIETY AND PHOBIA and COPING WITH ANXIETY.
| Size | | Length: | 429 pages | | Height: | 11.0 in | | Width: | 8.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 35.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
This book excels not only in explaining the cause and nature of anxiety disorders and phobias but also in describing treatments. Director of the Anxiety Treatment Center in Santa Rosa (California), Bourne emphasizes the cognitive-behavioral model of treatment but includes information on biopsychiatry, intense psychotherapy, and spirituality as additional treatment modalities. This is truly a "workbook," with exercises designed to facilitate recovery, either through private use or in conjunction with professional therapy. If your library already owns the 1990 edition and money is an object, you can probably pass on this revision, which updates the definitions of anxiety and phobia so that they conform with the new DSM-IV diagnostic criteria and includes new information on the biological causes of anxiety and related treatment developments. However, if your collection lacks a good lay reader's book on anxiety and phobia, this is an excellent choice. Jennifer Amador, Central State Hosp. Medical Lib., Petersburg, Va.
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