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Ambulance Girl: How I Saved Myself by Becoming an EMTby Jane SternISBN 1400048699 (1-4000-4869-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook.by Edward J. BourneISBN 1572244135 (1-57224-413-5)
Softcover, New Harbinger Pubns Inc
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Anxiety and Its Disorders: The Nature and Treatment of Anxiety and Panicby David H. BarlowISBN 159385028X (1-59385-028-X)
Softcover, Guilford Pubn
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Anxiety Attacked: John Macarthur, Jrby John MacArthurISBN 1564761282 (1-56476-128-2)
Softcover, David C Cook
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The Anxiety Book: Developing Strength in the Face of Fearby Henry Dreher, Jonathan DavidsonISBN 157322376X (1-57322-376-X)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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Anxiety Disorders and Phobias: A Cognitive Perspectiveby Aaron T. Beck, Gary Emery, Ruth L. GreenbergISBN 0465003850 (0-465-00385-0)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Anxiety Disorders And Phobias: A Cognitive Perspectiveby Gary Emery, Aaron Beck, Ruth L. GreenbergISBN 046500587X (0-465-00587-X)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anxiety Disorders And Phobias: A Cognitive Perspective'Book summary:At the forefront of the cognitive revolution, renowned psychiatrist Aaron T. Beck turned to information processing in order to understand the sources, consequences, and cures of anxiety disorders and phobias. In the first half of this classic text, Beck elaborates on the clinical picture of anxiety disorders and phobias and presents an explanatory model to account for the rich complexity of these phenomena. Cognitive psychologist Gary Emery then details the therapeutic principles, strategies, and tactics developed on the basis of the cognitive model of anxiety disorders and phobias.This fifteenth anniversary edition of the foundational work on cognitive therapy features a new introduction by Beck, in which he offers an up-to-date appraisal of the current state of cognitive therapy and its application to the treatment of phobias and anxiety.[via]More editions of Anxiety Disorders And Phobias: A Cognitive Perspective:
Anxiety, Phobias, and Panicby Reneau Z. PeurifoyISBN 0446692778 (0-446-69277-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Arthur's Toothby Marc Tolon BrownISBN 0316059609 (0-316-05960-9)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Arthur's Toothby Marc BrownISBN 0316112453 (0-316-11245-3)
Hardcover, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
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Beyond Anxiety and Phobia: A Step-By-Step Guide to Lifetime Recoveryby Edmund J. BourneISBN 1572242299 (1-57224-229-9)
Softcover, New Harbinger Pubns Inc
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Beyond Fearby Robert Handly, Neff PaulineISBN 0892563230 (0-89256-323-0)
Hardcover, Rawson Assoc
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Calming Your Anxious Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Anxiety, Fear, and Panicby Jeffrey Brantley, Jon Kabat-ZinnISBN 1572243384 (1-57224-338-4)
Softcover, New Harbinger Pubns Inc
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Clinical Handbook of Psychological Disorders: A Step-by-step Treatment Manualby David H. BarlowISBN 1572306114 (1-57230-611-4)
Hardcover, Guilford Pubn
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Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disordersby Aaron T. BeckISBN 0452009286 (0-452-00928-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Counsel Yourself and Others from the Bible: The First Place to Turn for Life's Tough Issuesby Bob MooreheadISBN 0880706368 (0-88070-636-8)
Hardcover, Multnomah Pub
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The Courage to Beby Paul TillichISBN 0300002416 (0-300-00241-6)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Courage to Be'Book summary:This book has more good ideas in it than clam chowder has calories. It's packed into every page, every line. Tillich is concerned with how the question of finding the courage to face up to existential doubts about death, meaninglessness, and guilt are tied to the ontological questions of being versus nonbeing. How can we affirm our existence when it seems so temporary, meaningless and full of moral failure? Tillich explores with incredible freshness and insight age old strategies, from Spinoza to the Stoics (his discussion of the Stoics alone is worth the price of the book). He gives a brilliant account of how people find the courage to overcome existential anxiety through particpation in groups and through individual strategies like existentialism. Finally, he explores the theological implications in a way that may challenge anyone who has stereotyped Tillich as a mouthpiece for Christianity. The book is excellently written, never dumbed down but always graspable. He also litters the book with brilliant asides on subjects like the history of existential angst and its relations to social relations and a great exploration of existential art. Don't pass this one up. [via]
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The Cry of the Soul: How Our Emotions Reveal Our Deepest Questions About Godby Dan B. Allender, Tremper LongmanISBN 0891098275 (0-89109-827-5)
Hardcover, Navpress
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Our dark emotions are much more than just uncomfortable feelings we struggle to control. They are windows into our heart. They are the cry of our soul. These emotions-the ones we tend to suppress and hide-actually have something important to tell us. They can reveal, in a very graphic way, where we are in our relationship with God.
So often we find ourselves caught between extremes. Either we feel too much or not at all. We tend to ignore our feelings or fight them off as if they were an enemy. But all emotion-whether positive or negative-can give us a glimpse of the true nature of God. We want to control our negative emotions and dark desire. God wants us to recognize them as the cry of our soul to be made right with Him.
Beginning with the Psalms, Dr. Dan Allender and Dr. Tremper Longman III explore what Scripture says about our darker emotions. In this ground-breaking work they reveal that often our attempts to control our emotions-far from an attempt to be Christlike-are really a form of rebellion against God or an attempt to flee from Him.
The Cry of the Soul is a penetrating look at the condition of the human heart. You won't find the kind of answers that alleviate struggle or help you overcome anger, jealousy, or despair in three easy steps. But you can encounter God Himself, who exults in using darkness to reveal the brilliance of His infinite goodness.
The result is joy. Not a superficial happiness that ignores the problems of our lives, but a profound emotion that can confront darkness with open eyes and confidence.
"Allender and Longman add an important contribution to a new wave of Psalm studies. There is an enormous temptation for 'high faith' to deny the 'dark side' of life where 'things do not work.' Against that common propensity, they show how the Psalms make contact with the 'emotions of failure.' Such places in life become, by their sensitive reading of the Psalms, places of revelatory healing and transformation. Readers will be helped to fresh and faithful discernment of life and text."-Walter Brueggemann, professor of Old Testament, Columbia
"Dan and Tremper have done us a fierce kindness. In a culture committed to either running from or wallowing in our emotions, The Cry of the Soul offers an excruciating but hopeful alternative-to listen to our own hearts (as did the psalmists) so we can better receive and worship the pursuing heart of God."-Nancy Groom, author of From Bondage to Bonding and Heart to Heart about Men
"The Cry of the Soul offers insight after surprising insight into the unexpected relationship between our emotions and our view of God. A needed correction to the simplistic explaining away of pain and suffering."-Daniel Taylor, Ph.D., author of The Myth of Certainty and Letters to My Children
"In The Cry of the Soul I hear an echo of my own heart-cry and that of the psalmists-to know God intimately and authentically, and to see Him powerfully at work in our broken world."-Luci Shaw, poet, teacher, author of God in the Dark and Writing the River
"If we are to be rescued from the incessant tendency to psychoanalyze the gospel, this book will be a good start. Dan and Tremper give us not more psychological information, but biblical encouragement to be faithful."-Michael Card, singer, songwriter, and author of Immanuel: Reflections on the Life of Christ [via]
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Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe: Working Through Social Anxietyby Signe A. DayhoffISBN 0967126509 (0-9671265-0-9)
Softcover, Effectiveness-Plus Pubns
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Everyone has experienced fleeting anxiety in social situations. But perhaps your self-consciousness intensely insinuates itself into one or more important aspects of your everyday life. If so, you likely suffer from the agonizing pangs of social fear. Perhaps you dread meeting people, giving a speech, using a public restroom, eating in public, talking to your boss, or having your social skills or work observed or your competence assessed. Or perhaps you feel threatened in new social situations where you don't know the rules, avoid such situations altogether, or just want to escape. We all experience social anxiety a little differently yet we're all riding the same skittish horse.
When our social fears are intense and persistent, we have social anxiety disorder/social phobia (SA/SP - "sasp" for short). This means every day we're forced to confront the pain of being in the spotlight, evaluated, or being embarrassed by the very social situations we long to embrace. Socially we find ourselves on the periphery of life's dance, trying to follow the choreographed patterns and rhythm, but usually seeming to be one beat out of synch, zigging when we should zag. Often feeling like the butt of a cosmic joke, we see ourselves as the ball in a pinball machine, bouncing from bumper to bumper, missing targets, and always on the verge of "tilt." This is being diagonally-parked in a parallel universe.
Clinically too, having SA/SP puts us in another dimension. Even though SA/SP is the most common anxiety disorder and the third most common psychiatric disorder after depression and alcoholism, it's the least-diagnosed, least-widely understood, and most under-treated. Few mental health professionals are well-versed in the condition or its treatment even as the number of sufferers continues to increase.
Making our situation worse, most of us with SA/SP don't know we have a treatable disorder, that we're not "just shy," and that we can and need to get help. But even when we understand this, we're often reluctant to seek professional help because we're ashamed of the fear and worried that our complaints won't be taken seriously. Then, when we finally do muster the courage to do it, we're often hobbled by the very anxiety for which we seek help: Talking with and being evaluated by others. Together, these factors help keep this major health problem nearly invisible.
This comprehensive book was written to show you how you can:
*Significantly and effectively alleviate your SA/SP pain;
*Significantly improve your daily functioning; and
* Effectively work toward your potential.You benefit from the uniqueness of my perspective. I'm both a social psychologist working in the areas of social and personal effectiveness, interpersonal and presentation skills, and anxiety management and someone who has struggled for 22 years to successfully overcome SA/SP. (I used to worry endlessly about what others might think about me and my not meeting their expectations.) As a result, I understand how it feels to be living- and working through this often-incapacitating disorder and where we SA/SPers need to specifically concentrate our efforts to improve our lives.
You benefit from my knowledge of SA/SPers' concerns, issues, and desires - the result of my two years of talking with and listening to SA/SPers online via lists, news groups, and chats. You benefit from my research, teaching, consulting, training, and coaching experience, as well as my association with professionals in the SA/SP trenches.
To make your SA/SP more understandable and amenable to change, this book provides you with not only the theories and salient research on its origin, triggers, and maintaining mechanisms, but also a broad range of standard and alternative clinical approaches, life strategies, motivational exercises, and empathy. And because I know from extensive experience that your having exercises just thrown at you isn't likely to help you empower yourself and succeed, this book takes you back to square-one. It gives you the psychological preparation you need to jump-start, enable, and maintain your recovery process.
Because we SA/SPers tend to have difficulties with clinicians, this book takes the mystery and risk out of locating and talking to them and guides you through the process: From initiating your search to surviving your first appointment. It tells you what to expect and how to prepare for it. Because we SA/SPers struggle with presenting ourselves socially (whether communicating, socializing, dating, or finding a job), this book addresses each significant life activity, breaks it down into sequential, digestible chunks so you can absorb, assimilate, and achieve it. And, because the Internet has great importance and value for SA/SPers as one of the few means of establishing relationships and comfortable communication we have, the book pinpoints the services and resources available for those with SA/SP.
Since how you think, feel, and behave determines how you interact with your environment (and conversely), this book focuses on your perceptions, emotions, beliefs, and self-presentation. Using real-life stories, typical problems, and their solutions, the user-friendly format takes you logically, incrementally, step-by-baby-step through the multiple-level processes of your recovery. Through concise explanations, thought questions, self-quizzes, and exercises, you systematically develop and apply your cognitive and behavioral strategies to achieve your recovery goals.
In this process you'll assess your social anxiety, determine where you're headed, how to get there, and how you'll know when you've arrived. You'll act as a scientist doing experiments. You'll learn, practice, and apply new skills that will constructively change the way you think about and cope with not only your SA/SP but also the world outside yourself. You'll see yourself make positive changes.
Using this book's clinically-proven methods, you can reduce your:
* anxiety and fear
* depression
* negative thinking
* anger
* loneliness
* procrastination
* shame and embarrassmentand increase your:
* motivation to make change
* confidence and self-esteem
* ability to handle stress
* initiating and maintaining conversations
* problem solving
* decision making
* expressing yourself appropriately
* patience
* listening to others
* social effectiveness
* dealing with criticism
* dating
* networking
* creating your own job and career opportunities
* understanding of social anxiety, yourself, and others.However, just reading this book isn't likely to ameliorate your SA/SP any more than just watching others exercise will cause you to lose weight and tone your body (although awareness may provide important identification, hints, and hope).
The book's recovery program is action-oriented, requiring your active, committed, persistent participation in order for you to alter all those factors contributing to your SA/SP: Your automatic fear arousal, negative thoughts, mistaken beliefs and assumptions, unrealistic expectations, and counter-productive behaviors.
Note: As much as we all may wish it to be true, there is no finger-snapping, lamp-rubbing, "Shazaam!" magical solution to SA/SP. It took many factors interacting over many years to bring you to your present state. So recovery will not be instantaneous. But if you take the time to make the necessary structured effort toward recovery (whether that includes therapy, medication, or both), you will quickly begin to experience small but significant changes in your thoughts, feelings, and behavior - glimpsing what it'll be like "without SA/SP." [via]
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Dying of Embarrassment: Help for Social Anxiety & Phobiaby Barbara Markway, Cheryl N. Carmin, Teresa Flynn, C. Alec PollardISBN 1879237237 (1-879237-23-7)
Softcover, New Harbinger Pubns Inc
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Embracing the Fear: Learning to Manage Anxiety and Panic Attacksby Judith Bemis, Amr BarradaISBN 089486971X (0-89486-971-X)
Softcover, Hazelden
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Exposure Anxiety - The Invisible Cage: An Exploration of Self-Protection Responses in the Autism Spectrum and Beyondby Donna WilliamsISBN 1843100517 (1-84310-051-7)
Softcover, Jessica Kingsley Pub
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Feel the Fear and Do It Anywayby Susan JeffersISBN 0345487427 (0-345-48742-7)
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The Feeling Good Handbookby David D. BurnsISBN 0452281326 (0-452-28132-6)
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Generation Xby Douglas CouplandISBN 1417706643 (1-4177-0664-3)
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Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life: The New Acceptance & Commitment Therapyby Steven Hayes, Spencer SmithISBN 1572244259 (1-57224-425-9)
Softcover, New Harbinger Pubns Inc
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Intriguing exercises help readers identify their core struggles, parse these into manageable pieces, and develop effective ways to move beyond rumination. The work progresses easily, thanks to Hayes' engaging style and his grace in coaching readers. Critics of cognitive and behavioral therapies will warm to Hayes' logical explanations of language's pitfalls (even language used by other therapeutic approaches); his sometimes goofy--but surprisingly effective--exercises; well-timed etymology lessons; and his uncanny ability to predict and skillfully address reader reactions throughout the workbook. Ironically, the path to life clocks many hours in the mind; plan to dedicate an intensive month of introspection to this program. Anyone who has been accused of thinking too much, who begrudges compliments, pines for a different life, or feels trapped at a mental dead end can benefit from Hayes' superior guidance.--Liane Thomas
Dr. Steven Hayes answers a few questions about his book, and describes how his research was inspired by his own struggles with panic and anxiety.Questions for Steven Hayes
Amazon.com: Can you give us a lay person's primer on acceptance and commitment therapy?
Steven Hayes: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is based on a rather remarkable fact: when normal problem solving skills are applied to psychologically painful thoughts or feelings, suffering often increases. Our research program has shown this in thousands of patients, in almost every area of human suffering. Fortunately, we have discovered why this is and we have developed some ways of correcting it.
The basic research underlying ACT shows that entanglement with your own mind leads automatically to experiential avoidance: the tendency to try first to remove or change negative thoughts and feelings as a method of life enhancement. This attempted sequence makes negative thoughts and feelings more central, important, and fearsome--and often decreasing the ability to be flexible, effective, and happy.
The trick that traps us is that these unhelpful mental processes are fed by agreement OR disagreement. Your mind is like a person who has to be right about everything. If you know any people like that you know that they are excited when you agree with them but they can be even more excited and energized when you argue with them! Minds are like that. So what do you do?
ACT teaches you what to do. I will say what that is, but readers need to understand that these mere words will not be useful in and of themselves. Minds are too clever for that! That is why the book has so many exercises and why we have a free discussion group on line for people working through the book (http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/ACT_for_the_Public/). What ACT teaches is acceptance of emotions, mindful awareness of thoughts, contact with a transcendent sense of self, and action based on chosen values. This constellation of skills has shown itself in controlled research to help with an amazingly large range of problems, from anxiety to managing the challenges of physical disease, from depression, to stopping smoking.
Amazon.com: Some of this work is said to have come from your own battles with anxiety and panic. How did these ideas apply to your own struggles?
Steven Hayes: It was my own panic disorder that first put me on to the problem we have now confirmed in our research. My panic disorder began a little over 25 years ago. I watched in horror as it grew rapidly, simply by applying my normal problem solving skills to it. Anxiety felt awful and seemingly made it impossible to function, so it was obvious to me that I first needed to get rid of it before my life would improve. I tried lots of things to do that. But this very effort meant I had to constantly evaluate my level of anxiety, and fearfully check to see if it was going up or down as a result of my efforts. As a result, anxiety quickly became the central focus of my life. Anxiety itself became something to be anxious about, and meanwhile life was put on hold.
After two or three years of this I'd had enough. I began to experiment with acceptance, mindfulness, and valued action instead of detecting, disputing, and changing my insides.
I remember a moment that symbolizes the change in direction. In the middle of a panic attack, with a guttural scream like you hear in the movies, I literally shouted out loud to my own mind. "You can make me feel pain, you can make me feel anxiety," I yelled. "But you cannot make me turn away from my own experience."
It has not been a smooth path and it was several years before anxiety itself was obviously way down (getting it to go down was no longer my purpose, remember, but ironically when you stop trying to make it happen, often it does), but almost immediately life opened up again. ACT is the result of over 20 years of research, following the lead this provided.
Amazon.com: You are a language researcher and chapter two of Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life is called "Why Language Leads to Suffering." Can you tell us why you suggest that language is a source of human suffering?
Steven Hayes: Human language (by that I mean our symbolic abilities generally) is central to effective human cognition. It evolved to keep us from starving or being eaten--and it has done a pretty good job of that.
The key to symbolic processes is the ability to relate events in new and arbitrary ways. Our research program has shown this ability even in 14 month old babies, and we now know it comes from direct training from parents and others as part of normal language development. It is a wonderful skill. It allows us to imagine futures that have never been, and to compare situations that have never actually been experienced. That is the every essence of human verbal problem solving.
But that same process has a downside for human beings. For example, it allows us to fear things we have never experienced (e.g., death). It allows us to run from the past or compare the dull present to a fantasized future and to be unhappy as a result. And in my case it lead to the common sense but ultimately unhelpful idea that I needed to get rid of anxiety before I could live well.
We get a lot of training in how to develop and use our minds, but we get very little training in how to step out of the mental chatter when that is needed. As a result, this mental tool begins to use us. It will even claim to BE us. The overextension of human language and cognition, I believe, is at the core of the vast majority of human suffering in the developed world and human technology (the media) is only amplifying the problem by exposing us to an ever increasing stream of symbols and images. Learning how to get out of your mind and into your life when you need to do that is an essential skill in the modern world.
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The Good News About Worryby William BackusISBN 1556611870 (1-55661-187-0)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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Guilt Freeby Dwigh CarlsonISBN 0890813752 (0-89081-375-2)
Softcover, Harvest House Pub
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Healing Fear: New Approaches to Overcoming Anxietyby Edmund J. BourneISBN 1572241160 (1-57224-116-0)
Softcover, New Harbinger Pubns Inc
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Healing in the Catholic Church: Mending Wounded Hearts and Bodiesby Joseph ChamplinISBN 0879737190 (0-87973-719-0)
Softcover, Our Sunday Visitor
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Herzogby Saul Bellow, Rafael Vazquez ZamoraISBN 849793332X (84-9793-332-X)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Herzog'Book summary:Aunque su vida se desintegra paulatinamente ante sus ojos -ha fracasado como profesor y como padre, amén de ser abandonado por su mujer en favor de su mejor amigo-, Herzog se ve a sí mismo como un sobreviviente, tanto frente a sus desastres domésticos como al pasar de los años. Ocupa su tiempo escribiendo cartas que nunca serán enviadas, a amigos y enemigos, a colegas y a gente famosa, revelando con ironía sus percepciones del mundo que lo rodea, así como los secretos más profundos de su alma.
Saludado como uno de los libros más revelantes de la literatura anglosajona del siglo XX, Herzog catapultó a su autor a pedestales reservados, hasta ese momento, a autores como William Faulkner, Mark Twain o Ernest Hemingway, y le abrió las puertas para obtener el premio Nobel de Literatura. [via]More editions of Herzog:
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Hope and Help for Your Nervesby Claire WeekesISBN 0451167228 (0-451-16722-8)
Softcover, Signet
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How to Control Your Anxiety Before It Controls Youby Albert EllisISBN 1559724773 (1-55972-477-3)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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I Don't Want to Be Crazy: A Memoir of Anxiety Disorderby Samantha SchutzISBN 043980518X (0-439-80518-X)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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This is a true story of growing up, breaking down, and coming to grips with a psychological disorder. When Samantha Schutz first left home for college, she was excited by the possibilities -- freedom from parents, freedom from a boyfriend who was reckless with her affections, freedom from the person she was supposed to be. At first, she revelled in the independence ... but as pressures increased , she began to suffer anxiety attacks that would leave her mentally shaken and physically incapacitated. Thus began a hard road of discovery and coping, powerfully rendered in this poetry memoir.More editions of I Don't Want to Be Crazy: A Memoir of Anxiety Disorder:
The Language of Feelings: The Time-And-Money Shorthand of Psychotherapyby David S. ViscottISBN 0877951306 (0-87795-130-6)
Hardcover, Arbor House
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Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Lifeby Martin E SeligmanISBN 1400078393 (1-4000-7839-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Letting Go of Worry and Anxietyby Pam W. VredeveltISBN 1576739554 (1-57673-955-4)
Softcover, WaterBrook Press
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The Nature of Jadeby Deb CalettiISBN 1416910050 (1-4169-1005-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Nature of Jade'Book summary:I am not my illness. "Girl with Anxiety," "Trauma of the Week" -- no. I hate stuff like that. Everyone, everyone has their issue. But the one thing my illness did make me realize is how necessary it is to ignore the dangers of living in order to live. And how much trouble you can get into if you can't.
Jade DeLuna is too young to die. She knows this, and yet she can't quite believe it, especially when the terrifying thoughts, loss of breath, and dizzy feelings come. Since being diagnosed with Panic Disorder, she's trying her best to stay calm, and visiting the elephants at the nearby zoo seems to help. That's why Jade keeps the live zoo webcam on in her room, and that's where she first sees the boy in the red jacket. A boy who stops to watch the elephants. A boy carrying a baby.
His name is Sebastian, and he is raising his son alone. Jade is drawn into Sebastian's cozy life with his son and his activist grandmother on their Seattle houseboat, and before she knows it, she's in love. With this boy who has lived through harder times than anyone she knows. This boy with a past.
Jade knows the situation is beyond complicated, but she hasn't felt this safe in a long time. She owes it all to Sebastian, her boy with the great heart. Her boy who is hiding a terrible secret. A secret that will force Jade to decide between what is right, and what feels right.
Master storyteller Deb Caletti has once again created characters so real, you will be breathless with anticipation as their riveting story unfolds. [via]
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Children and Adolescentsby Judith L. RapoportISBN 0880482826 (0-88048-282-6)
Hardcover, Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc
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Ordinary Victories: What Is Preciousby Manu LarcenetISBN 1561634239 (1-56163-423-9)
Softcover, Comics Lit
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Overcoming Anxiety, Panic, and Depression: New Ways to Regain Your Confidenceby Arthur H. Bell, James GardnerISBN 1564144356 (1-56414-435-6)
Softcover, Career Pr Inc
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Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness : A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioral Techniquesby Gillian ButlerISBN 0814798748 (0-8147-9874-8)
Softcover, New York University Press
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Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness is an easy-to-use guide, full of real-life examples, which provides practical methods for resolving feelings of nervousness or apprehension in our relationships with other people.The book will help the reader to understand the many forms and causes of social anxiety, and offers strategies for overcoming them. It contains a complete, self-help program, using clinically proven techniques of cognitive therapy, as well as work sheets to help readers to track their progress.
Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness will help to address both very crippling, entrenched problems as well as the more mild feelings of social shyness experienced by everyone at one time or another. The guide will also be useful for those who wish to improve their networking and business interaction skills. [via]More editions of Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness : A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioral Techniques:
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Perfect Madness: Motherhood In The Age Of Anxietyby Judith WarnerISBN 1594481709 (1-59448-170-9)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety'Book summary:The old adage is especially true for Perfect Madness: don't judge this eminently readable book by its stern and academic-looking cover. Judith Warner's missive on the "Mommy Mystique" can be read in a weekend, if readers have the time. Of course--according to the book--many would-be readers will have to carve out the hours in between an endless sea of child-enriching activities, a soul-sucking swirl that leads many mothers into a well of despair. Warner's book seeks to answer the question, "Why are today's young mothers so stressed out?" Whether shuttling kids to "enriching" after-school activities or worrying about the quality of available child care, the women of Perfect Madness describe a life far out of balance. Warner spends most of the book explaining how things got to this point, and what can be done to restore some sanity to the parenting process.
Warner draws her research from a group of 20- to 40-year-old, upper-middle-class, college-educated women living in the East Coast corridor. In other words, mirror images of Warner herself. Her limited scope has caused controversy and criticism, as have some of her more sweeping statements. (For example, Warner blames second-wave feminism--rather than corporate culture--for the many limitations women still experience as they try to balance the work-family dynamic.) Other favorite targets include the mainstream media, detached fathers, and controlling, "hyperactive" mothers who create impossible standards for themselves, their children, and the community of other parents around them. Warner begins and ends the book with a compelling argument for the need for more societal support of mothers--quality-of-life government "entitlements" such as those found in France. It's these big-picture issues that will provide the solution, she says, even if most mothers don't want to discuss them because they consider the topic "tacky, strident-sounding, not the point." In these sections on governmental policy, and also when she steps back, encouraging women to be kinder to each other, the author's warmth comes across easily on the page. Pilloried by some readers and supported by others, Warner should at least be applauded for opening up the Pandora's Box of American motherhood for a new generation. And if readers are of two minds about the issues raised Perfect Madness, as Warner sometimes seems to be herself, it's a fitting reaction to a topic with few easy answers. --Jennifer Buckendorff END [via]
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The Pleasure of My Companyby Steve MartinISBN 1587244810 (1-58724-481-0)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Power over Panic: Answers for Anxietyby Carol M. ChristensenISBN 0781439116 (0-7814-3911-6)
Hardcover, David C Cook
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You'll learn to look realistically at the imperfections that have imprisoned you, and where to look for the keys to your hurt. It's time to unlock the doors of your past that hide and explain your compulsive behaviors. And then you'll be ready to invite God's healing principles into your life and to have a life healed by love.
If you're looking for help and healing, it is likely that you have been the victim of relational scars. Many experience pain when they fill their God-given need for love with destructive relationships, compulsive behavior, and other addictions. The healing journey can begin now. You can have Power Over Panic.
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The PTSD Workbook: Simple, Effective Techniques for Overcoming Traumatic Stress Symptomsby Mary Beth Williams, Soili PoijulaISBN 1572242825 (1-57224-282-5)
Softcover, New Harbinger Pubns Inc
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Quiet Your Mindby John SelbyISBN 1930722311 (1-930722-31-1)
Softcover, Inner Ocean Pub
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Rapid Relief from Emotional Distressby James Campbell, Gary EmeryISBN 0892562986 (0-89256-298-6)
Hardcover, Rawson Assoc
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Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbookby Martha Davis, Matthew McKay, Elizabeth Robbins EshelmanISBN 1567310753 (1-56731-075-3)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook'Book summary:Although the sheer size of this dense workbook might cause initial hyperventilation--280 full-size sheets of text--take heart (and a deep breath!): the many self-assessment tools and calming techniques presented in this fifth edition can help overcome anxiety and promote physical and emotional well-being. First introduced in 1980, the book received praise for presenting a comprehensive look at stress, its physical manifestations, and the multiple ways it can be managed. Twenty years later, its well-organized chapters on breathing, relaxation, meditation, thought stopping, and body awareness still guide the reader through copious self-help techniques to try and, eventually, master. Other chapters, including job stress management, goal setting and time management, and assertiveness training, focus on daily scenarios people often find distressing. Lessons in identifying key elements that trigger unpleasant responses and in reacting differently to these elements are designed to defuse perceived conflicts. For this edition, coauthors Martha Davis (psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry of Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Santa Clara, CA), Elizabeth Robbins Eshelman (licensed clinical social worker with Kaiser Permanente Online), and Matthew McKay (clinical director of Haight-Ashbury Psychological Services, San Francisco, CA) have added topics on worry control, anger management, and eye-movement therapy. New diagrams and a more reader-friendly format should appeal to readers, despite a few typos and graphical mishaps. This is a valuable tool for therapists, their patients, and the stressed-at-large. --Liane Thomas [via]
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Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook: Leader's Guideby Martha DavisISBN 1572240369 (1-57224-036-9)
Softcover, New Harbinger Pubns Inc
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Ritualsby Cees NooteboomISBN 1860460488 (1-86046-048-8)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Sermon on the Mountby Arthur W. PinkISBN 1589603184 (1-58960-318-4)
Hardcover, Sovereign Grace Pub
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The Shyness & Social Anxiety Workbook: Proven Techniques for Overcoming Your Fearsby Richard P. Swinson, Martin M. AntonyISBN 1572242167 (1-57224-216-7)
Softcover, New Harbinger Pubns Inc
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Status Anxiety: Library Editionby Alain De BottonISBN 0375725350 (0-375-72535-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Status Anxiety: Library Edition'Book summary:Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The firstthe story of our quest for sexual loveis well known and well charted. . . . The secondthe story of our quest for love from the worldis a more secret and shameful tale. And yet this second love story is no less intense than the first.
This is a book about an almost universal anxiety that rarely gets mentioned directly: an anxiety about what others think of us, about whether were judged a success or a failure, a winner or a loser. This is a book about status anxiety.
Alain de Botton, best-selling author of The Consolations of Philosophy and The Art of Travel, askswith lucidity and charmwhere our worries about status come from and what, if anything, we can do to surmount them. With the help of philosophers, artists and writers, he examines the origins of status anxiety (ranging from the consequences of the French Revolution to our secret dismay at the success of our friends) before revealing ingenious ways in which people have been able to overcome their worries in the search for happiness. We learn about sandal-less philosophers and topless bohemians, about the benefits of putting skulls on our sideboards, and about looking at ancient ruins.
The result is a book that isnt just highly entertaining and thought-provoking, but that is genuinely wise and helpful, too. [via]More editions of Status Anxiety: Library Edition:
Stress, Anxiety and Insomniaby Michael T. MurrayISBN 1559584890 (1-55958-489-0)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Tired of Trying to Measure Upby Jeffrey VanvonderenISBN 1556610300 (1-55661-030-0)
Softcover, Bethany House Pub
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Treating Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Evidence-Based Strategies, Tools, and Techniquesby William C. Sanderson, Jayne L. RyghISBN 1593850395 (1-59385-039-5)
Softcover, Guilford Pubn
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Treating Health Anxiety: A Cognitive-Behavioral Approachby Steven Taylor, Gordon J. G. AsmundsonISBN 1572309989 (1-57230-998-9)
Hardcover, Guilford Pubn
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Trevor's Wiggly-Wobbly Toothby Lester L. Laminack, Kathi Garry McCordISBN 1561452793 (1-56145-279-3)
Softcover, Peachtree Pub Ltd
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Turning Your Stress into Strengthby Robert SchullerISBN 089081113X (0-89081-113-X)
Softcover, Harvest House Pub
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The Unquiet Graveby Cyril ConnollyISBN 0892550589 (0-89255-058-9)
Softcover, Persea Books, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Unquiet Grave'Book summary:This enduring classic is "a book which, no matter how many readers it will ever have, will never have enough" (Ernest Hemingway).
Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) was one of the most influential book reviewers and critics in England, contributing regularly to The New Statesmen, The Observer, and The Sunday Times. His essays have been collected in book form and published to wide acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. The Unquiet Grave is considered by many to be his most enduring work. It is a highly personal journal written during the devastation of World War II, filled with reflective passages that deal with aging, the break-up of a long term relationship, and the horrors of the war around him. It is also a wonderfully varied intellectual feast: a collection of aphorisms, epigrams, and quotations from such masters of European literature as Horace, Baudelaire, Sainte-Beuve, Flaubert, and Goethe. Dazzlingly original in both form and content, The Unquiet Grave has continued to influence generations of writers. [via]More editions of The Unquiet Grave:
Walking through the Darknessby Neil T. AndersonISBN 0898403316 (0-89840-331-6)
Hardcover, Here's Life Publishers
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Why Am I Afraid to Love?: Overcoming Rejection and Indifferenceby John PowellISBN 1559242787 (1-55924-278-7)
Softcover, Thomas More Pr
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Worry: Hope and Help for a Common Conditionby Edward M. HallowellISBN 0345424581 (0-345-42458-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Worry: Hope and Help for a Common Condition'Book summary:As far as we know, plants and animals don't do it. Worry is a human "skill." And it comes in different forms. Some kinds indicate diagnosable conditions, such as depression, or Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). Others, such as shyness, are built in from birth, and some seem plain old existential--stemming from broken trust or loss of faith. But worry is uniquely human. "To create worry," Dr. Hallowell writes, "humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well."
Illustrating his theories with the personal stories of and dialogues with clients, Hallowell provides a full picture of the ordinary yet chronic worry-problems. Thus, each presenting problem is dramatically rendered, and the ensuing therapies practically understood. Hallowell emphasizes the physical, not the psychological aspect of worrying, which helps stop the cycle of self-blame many worriers are prone to. When worry is no longer identified as a lack of moral courage, for example, but a natural phenomenon, it can begin to be managed.
The steps set forth in Worry: Controlling and Using It Wisely are practical and straightforward. First comes awareness, which, over time, sets the stage for new patternmaking in the brain. An entire chapter is devoted to methods of running interventions on worry without medication. Worry offers an articulate and powerful reframe of a debilitating condition that's as old as the human brain. By releasing the deeply entrenched habit of negativity, a worrier can step out of the cycle, and freed from phobia, move ahead. [via]
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Worry : When Life is More Scary Than It Should Be and What You Can Do About Itby Edward M. HallowellISBN 0679442375 (0-679-44237-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Worry : When Life is More Scary Than It Should Be and What You Can Do About It'Book summary:As far as we know, plants and animals don't do it. Worry is a human "skill." And it comes in different forms. Some kinds indicate diagnosable conditions, such as depression, or Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). Others, such as shyness, are built in from birth, and some seem plain old existential--stemming from broken trust or loss of faith. But worry is uniquely human. "To create worry," Dr. Hallowell writes, "humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well."
Illustrating his theories with the personal stories of and dialogues with clients, Hallowell provides a full picture of the ordinary yet chronic worry-problems. Thus, each presenting problem is dramatically rendered, and the ensuing therapies practically understood. Hallowell emphasizes the physical, not the psychological aspect of worrying, which helps stop the cycle of self-blame many worriers are prone to. When worry is no longer identified as a lack of moral courage, for example, but a natural phenomenon, it can begin to be managed.
The steps set forth in Worry: Controlling and Using It Wisely are practical and straightforward. First comes awareness, which, over time, sets the stage for new patternmaking in the brain. An entire chapter is devoted to methods of running interventions on worry without medication. Worry offers an articulate and powerful reframe of a debilitating condition that's as old as the human brain. By releasing the deeply entrenched habit of negativity, a worrier can step out of the cycle, and freed from phobia, move ahead. [via]
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Les Amants Mauditsby Katia GranoffISBN 2264002190 (2-264-00219-0)
Hardcover, Union generale d'editions
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Rituelenby Cees NooteboomISBN 9029532629 (90-295-3262-9)
Hardcover, Arbeiderspers
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