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Summary: Practical and comprehensive help for anxiety disorders
Review: The ANXIETY & PHOBIA WORKBOOK is a practical and comprehensive guide offering help to anyone who is struggling with panic attacks, agoraphobia, social fears, generalized anxiety, obsessive-compulsive behaviors, or other anxiety disorders. Step-by-step guidelines, questionnaires, and exercises will help you learn skills and make lifestyle changes necessary to achieve a lasting recovery. The workbook can be used to develop you own self-help program or as an adjunct to therapy. A partial list of topics includes: causes of anxiety disorders, relaxation, exercise, coping with panic, real-life desensitization, overcoming negative self-talk, changing mistaken beliefs, visualization, expressing feelings, assertiveness, self-esteem, nutrition, and medication. For a range of new appraoches to overcoming anxiety which supplement the WORKBOOK, see the author's recent book, HEALING FEAR.
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Summary: The Premier Resource for sufferers of Anxieties and Phobias
Review: The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook is the premier psychiatric resource for sufferers of Anxieties and Phobic disorders. Clear, concise, descriptive with verbose exercise modules that aid the reader in discovering his or her own problem and the best ways to effectively combat it. Many books and programs promise great things for psychiatric patients or for "silent" sufferers, BUT this one delivers hope, promise, and is affordable. The wealth in this book is worth at least a year's worth of therapy that could easily cost $5,000 for a session a week. I encourage anyone to purchase and use this invaluable resource! Felecia Constance Rowe
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Summary: Very helpful and comprehensive advice
Review: The best book of its kind I have seen. A comprehensive and balanced explanation of the theories of what causes anxiety disorders and various treatment approaches, ranging from spiritual to cognitive behavioral therapy to medication to nutrition. While the book isn't by any means a substitute for personalized medical treatment, it is very useful both as a source of basic information and to empower the anxiety sufferer to be able to communicate on an equal footing with a doctor and to ask the right questions and take an active role in his or her own treatment. Also noteworthy is the fact that the author does not seem to have a bias and gives a thoughtful assessment of a variety of perspectives, many of which have been inappropriately debunked by the medical establishment.
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Summary: A genuine stress reliever
Review: The day leading up to finding this book in the bookstore was probably one of my worst days. I had been tortured all day by extreme fear and anxiety about some stupid ungrounded fear. On the way home from a shopping trip I opened up to my wife about it and started to cry. She said lets go to the local bookstore and find a book about anxiety that might help you. I found this book on the shelf and immediately started to read it that night. Over the next few months I reread it four more times and filled the pages with highlited paragraphs which really helped me. I like the way the book is formatted with specific topics, explanations and simple techniques to practice. I was able to see myself in almost every page of this book. This really helped me feel like I was not alone on my journey. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is suffering out there today.
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Summary: Easy, Practical, Helpful
Review: This book answers all the questions you and your loved ones may have about the leading anxiety disorders. Practical advice that makes sense. Best of all, it focuses on overall lifestyle change to improve the quality of life while at the same time reducing anxiety. I return to the book often as reference and usually find what I am looking for within its pages. Recommended to me by a therapist.
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Summary: This book changed my life.
Review: This book changed my life. It contains a wonderfully simple step-by-step program to help you control your anxiety. It is not a substitute for therapy, but used in conjunction with therapy this book helped me take control of my life.
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Summary: Too generalized to be of much help
Review: This book deals primarily with generalized anxiety and panic disorders, so those with more specific disorders (PTSD, social anxiety, OCD..) will be better off buying a special workbook. I took 2 points off because, although well-written, much of the information in this book is useless to those of us without generalized anxiety. We can apparently blame bad parenting for most of our problems, as this book has. For example, it lists eight reasons a person might have low self-esteem: overly critical parents, significant childhood loss, parental abuse, parental alcoholism or drug abuse, parental neglect, parental rejection, parental overprotectiveness, parental overindulgence. If you're not a big fan of cognitive-behavioral therapy, don't buy this book. Before throwing it away, the only part I ripped out and kept was the chapter on nutrition.
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Summary: Extremely comprehensive book on anxiety / phobias.
Review: This book has a good claim to being the most comprehensive text written about anxiety and phobias. This does NOT mean that it is superficial or just touches upon the various techniques to aid sufferers - quite the opposite; there is enough detail and different recommendations to give even the most apathetic of people hope that things CAN and WILL get better. Certainly the book is written in such a fashion to enable the reader to work on individual areas eg relaxation, nutrition, self-esteem, communication at their own pace. One doesn't have to read the whole book to put the ideas into practice. Dr Bourne is to be congratulated for keeping the language simple and, without doubt, I found the book to be very easy reading - a delight in fact. Don't be mistaken, however, the techniques are very powerful and everything is explained in sufficient detail to enable the reader to decide which approach is best for him / her. Highly recommended. Surely "a classic" in the making.
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Summary: An absolute must!
Review: This book has helped me fully understand for the first time the nature of anxiety disorders and how to manage them. The information is an absolutely crucial part of recovery. The book is very easy to read without a lot of psychological and medical jargon. It was the best $$ I
ever spent!
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Summary: Practical book
Review: This book has made me a better person by helping me see who I really was. The sections on exercise, nutrition, and relaxation (especially meditation) put me into a new routine in which I am more prepared to deal with reality. The paradox I found is that relaxation takes a little effort--I had thought it was not supposed to require effort. So even if you're just a nervous or worrisome person, pick up the book and start learning how much better life can be.
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