The Sky is Falling – Understanding & Coping With Phobias, Panic, & Obsessive– Compulsive Disorders - Hardcover

Dumont, Raeann

 
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Synopsis

Gracie hasn't left her house in thirty years out of fear she'll be contaminated. Jerry spent hours each day picking up debris on the subway platform. Norm's bridge phobia led him into alcoholism. David bright, young, ambitious feared he'd lose his job because he so dreaded giving sales presentations. These are some of the case studies exemplary of the approximately fourteen to twenty million people who suffer from anxiety disorders in this country that are found in this riveting and instructive book. Raeann Dumont lays bare the features of obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobias, and panic. Utilizing cognitive therapy and self-help techniques, she helps readers recognize anxiety-producing thoughts and shows how, through reality testing and assessing anxiety situations, these compulsions can be managed.

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Review

A warm, informative and practical book. . . . Eminently useful to anxiety sufferers and therapists alike.--Valerie Raskin, M.D.

Synopsis

This work provides an account of the lives, thoughts and struggles of people who suffer from phobias, panic attacks and obsessive-compulsive disorders. Using cognitive therapy and supported exposure techniques, the author identifies anxiety-producing thoughts and shows how they can be managed.

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ISBN 10:  0393316033 ISBN 13:  9780393316032
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997
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