Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life: How Dialectical Behavior Therapy Can Put You in Control (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook) - Softcover

Scott E. Spradlin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1572243090 ISBN 13: 9781572243095

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications, 2003

Synopsis

A guide to reigning in out-of-control emotions combines a series of relaxation techniques and stress-relief prescriptions to help readers prevent anger, depression, and anxiety from destroying their lives. Original.

About this title

About the Author

Scott Spradlin, MA, specializes in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT.) He is the founding editor of the DBT Bulletin.

From the Inside Flap

Do you feel out of control of your emotions?

Many of us know the awful predicament of losing control of our emotions. We may not be clinically "crazy" but instead "high reactors," experiencing overpowering feelings that knock us off balance, plunge us into depression, make us fly off the handle, or terrify us without warning.

When we are regularly undone by our emotions, we become victims of damaged relationships, trapped circumstances, self-sabotage, and illness. In this breakthrough new workbook, a therapist who has had amazing results treating patients who have problems managing their emotions, helps all of us gain the upper hand on our feelings and our lives.

The proven effective techniques contained in Don t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life help us anticipate, understand, avoid, and replace these "high reactions" by applying the methods of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). The therapeutic technique of DBT is an eclectic mix of cognitive behavioral techniques, skills training, and Buddhist wisdom. With worksheets, assessment exercises, and step-by-step guidance author Scott Spradlin translates the secrets of DBT for the rest of us. Step-by-step he ll show you how to eliminate overpowering feelings so that you may go on to tolerate life s ongoing stresses with a sense of calm co-existence with your emotions.

"Many people feel emotionally out of control their overpowering feelings trap them in bouts of anger, depression, and panic. DBT is a proven, highly effective treatment to reduce the impact of painful emotions and increase the effect of positive ones. Therapists are lining up at workshops to learn the groundbreaking techniques this book can teach you. I strongly recommend this book."

- Matthew McKay, Ph.D., coauthor of The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook and Thoughts & Feelings

Edition details

• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1572243090
• ISBN 13: 9781572243095
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216