Performance Anxiety: Overcoming Your Fear in the Workplace, Social Situations, Interpersonal Communications, the Performing Arts - Softcover

Robin, Mitchell W.; Balter, Rochelle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558504419 ISBN 13: 9781558504417

Publisher: Adams Media Corp, 1994

Synopsis

Overcome your fear in the workplace, social situations, interpersonal communications, and the performing arts.

Whether it comes in the form of making a business presentation, performing onstage, or delivering a speech, performance anxiety can affect anyone. This breakthrough book, written by staff members of the prestigious institute for Rational-Emotive Therapy, offers sixteen prescriptive exercises that will help the millions who suffer from the syndrome. Performance Anxiety shows how to understand the sources of anxiety, develop increased confidence, and overcome performance problems in virtually any situation.

About this title

About the Author:

Mitchell W. Robin, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and a Professor of Psychology at New York City Technical College, CUNY. He maintains his therapy practice at the Institute for Rational-Emotive Therapy (IRET) in New York City. He also serves as a member of IRET's training faculty, is a certified IRET supervisor, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy.

Rochelle Balter, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and practices at the Institute for Rational-Emotive Therapy in New York City, as well as being a certified IRET supervisor. She is also the book review editor for Illness, Crisis, and Loss, a multidisciplinary journal for mental health and health care professionals.

Review:

"Robin and Balter handle their subject entertainingly well. A book that should prove interesting to mental health professionals as well as to the layman, it will give needed hope-and help-to many." -- Herbert G. Goldman, author of Jolson: The Legend Comes To Life, Fanny Brice, and Eddie Cantor

"This valuable information needs to be read over and again on as many levels possible." -- Marnie Nixon, Internationally-known singer/educator, opera, concert, theatre, and recording artist

About this edition

• Publisher: Adams Media Corp
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1558504419
• ISBN 13: 9781558504417
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 226