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When Panic Attacks

The New, Drug-Free Anxiety Therapy That Can Change Your Life

by David D. Burns, M.D.
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The truth is that you can defeat your fears. The author of the four-million-copy bestselling Feeling Good offers 40+ simple, effective CBT-based techniques to overcome every conceivable kind of anxiety—without medication.
 
“Few truly great books on psychotherapy have been published, and this is one of them.”—Albert Ellis, Ph.D., founder of the Albert Ellis Institute and bestselling author of A Guide to Rational Living

We all know what it’s like to feel anxious, worried, or panicky. What you may not realize is that these fears are almost never based on reality. When you’re anxious, you’re actually fooling yourself, telling yourself things that simply aren’t true. See if you can recognize yourself in any of these distortions:

All-or-Nothing Thinking: “My mind will go blank when I give my presentation at work, and everyone will think I’m an idiot.”
Fortune Telling: “I just know I’ll freeze up and blow it when I take my test.”
Mind Reading: “Everyone at this party can see how nervous I am.”
Magnification: “Flying is so dangerous. I think this plane is going to crash!”
Should Statements: “I shouldn’t be so anxious and insecure. Other people don’t feel this way.”
Self-Blame: “What’s wrong with me? I’m such a loser!”
Mental Filter: “Why can’t I get anything done? My life seems like one long procrastination.”

Using techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), which focuses on practical, solution-based methods for understanding and overcoming negative thoughts and emotions, When Panic Attacks gives you the ammunition to quickly defeat every conceivable kind of anxiety, such as chronic worrying, shyness, public speaking anxiety, test anxiety, and phobias, without lengthy therapy or prescription drugs. 
 
With forty fast-acting techniques that have been shown to be more effective than medications, When Panic Attacks is an indispensable handbook for anyone who’s worried sick and sick of worrying.

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    May 9, 2006

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      • ISBN: 9780767923897

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    • English

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    • Library Journal

      February 15, 2006
      While everyone has the occasional attack of nerves, the National Institute of Mental Health estimates that 19 million adults suffer from anxiety disorders, i.e., anxiety or panic that is so severe or unrelenting that it interferes with normal life. While psychiatrists often prescribe antidepressants, some of which seem to have antianxiety effects, Burns (psychiatry & behavioral sciences, Stanford Univ. Sch. of Medicine; "Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy") recommends cognitive-behavioral therapy, a type of talk therapy in which patients are taught to recognize and deliberately change their negative patterns of thought and action. Although there are many other acceptable titles that can help people do this on their own -including Edmund J. Bourne -s "The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook" and Judith Bemis and Amr Barrada -s "Embracing the Fear: Learning To Manage Anxiety and Panic Attacks" -Burns -s book has several features to recommend it. Besides being well written and accessible, with lots of patient narratives to spark interest, it lays out exactly what readers need to do to feel better. In addition, Burns -s earlier title on depression, "Feeling Good", is much beloved by the self-help crowd, so there will be some demand for this new one. For most public libraries." -Mary Ann Hughes, Neill P.L., Pullman, WA"

      Copyright 2006 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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