Becoming Resilient: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy to Transform Your Life

Do you feel unhappy? Prone to depression and anxiety? Is there something you can do to beat the blues and bounce back? And not just bounce back, but flourish? Therapist and academic Dr Nimmi Hutnik has spent thirty years researching and contemplating these questions. Based on contemporary, state-of-the-art thinking in cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) and positive psychology, Becoming Resilient is written to put the control back where it belongs: with you. The book will help you determine if you indeed suffer from depression or one of the seven forms of anxiety: panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, health/illness anxiety, generalized anxiety disorder, specific phobias, social anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. It will help you gain tools and techniques to treat yourself and get back on course.Drawing upon both Western and Eastern traditions, Becoming Resilient will point you to the path of psychological transformation. A must read in perhaps the most stressful age in history.

After an MA in clinical psychology, Dr Nimmi Hutnik founded, along with four other people, a therapeutic community that operated in New Delhi for many years, serving people with mental health problems and substance abuse issues. She also taught at Lady Shri Ram College for twenty years. During this time she won the Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship to study social and developmental psychology at Oxford University in the UK. After completing a doctorate at Oxford, she returned to India and practiced as a clinical psychologist for a number of years. At the time she took a qualification in transactional analysis. Now living in Britain, she is an accredited cognitive behaviour therapist and a chartered counselling psychologist. Till recently she was an associate professor at London South Bank University where she taught cognitive behavioural therapy to postgraduate students. She provides therapy, coaching and supervision in person and via Skype. Her website is www.cbtintheuk.com.