Overcoming Panic: A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioral Techniques (Overcoming Series, 3) - Softcover

Silove, Derrick; Manicavasagar, Vijaya

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814797938 ISBN 13: 9780814797938

Publisher: NYU Press, 2001

Synopsis

It is common to become anxious in situations such as job interviews, exams, or a public speaking engagement. For some, however, anxiety symptoms become so severe and persistent that they become disabling. In some cases people develop episodes of sudden and intense anxiety, known as panic attacks, with physical symptoms so severe that they may be mistaken for heart disease or a stroke. Some sufferers begin to avoid situations they believe will cause them stress, to the point that they become fearful of restaurants or supermarkets, or even of leaving their homes.

Overcoming Panic has been developed as a self-help guide for overcoming and preventing panic attacks and associated agoraphobia. Based on the clinically proven techniques of cognitive behavioral therapy, this step-by-step management program will be indispensable for those affected, as well as their families and friends, psychologists, and those in the medical profession.

About this title

About the Author

Derrick Silove is a practicing clinical psychiatrist and Director of the Psychiatry Research and Teaching Unit, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales.

Vijaya Manicavasagar is a senior clinical psychologist and is Research Coordinator of the Psychiatry Research and Teaching Unit of the University of New South Wales.

Review

The best consumer-friendly CBT-based books... All are very thorough. The Observer

Edition details

• Publisher: NYU Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0814797938
• ISBN 13: 9780814797938
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 1