Product Description: Anxiety affects 25 million people in the United States, and treatment can be difficult and daunting. Coping with Anxiety takes a sensible, clinically based approach by teaching ten simple steps to overcoming the problem and maintaining an anxiety-free life. The tips range from "Thinking realistically" to "Taking constructive coping actions" and include friendly exercises for combating a particular aspect of anxiety. In the first chapter, for example, readers learn how to deal with physical symptoms by mastering three essential relaxation techniques. Each strategy provides something the reader can do in the moment. An afterword on medication is included.
The Trend seems to be Recycled: Part of my work is to read "self-help" type "brain/psychology" books and what I'm finding is that the trend seems to be recycled from Maslow's Humanistic Psychology, from his 1954 book Motivation and Personality, which was first recycled by Seligman in Learned Optimism around'98 with this same Positive Psychology that Maslow began. So they take Maslow and mix it with the recycled Wallace Wattles movement. Wattles wrote his book back in 1906, I think it was. You've probably never heard of Wattles, but if you've ever heard of "The Secret" then you know the idea because "The Secret" is a 100% rip-off of Wattles.
I guess my point is, the trend is to pump out recycled ideas with new book covers and "new" authors and call the ideas your own, pump a ton of advertising dollars into and you have a winner. I try to find books that give me a new idea, if not necessarily 100% original at least original in the sense that it's not recycled from the same old ideas that we've been getting forever from the self-help author community.
Thus far the book that I have found to offer such a refreshingly original idea is from a lady named Sarah Shikitao-Brown. She's a Philosophic Taoist, semi-retired therapist and a student of Habib Davanloo. In the 60's Davanloo developed a totally new approach to dealing with the classic psychology paradox, "How to get around the ego defenses". Davaloo's radical method makes dealing with the ego defenses a fairly simple issue. It speeds up the entire process of therapy. I will provide links to Davanloo's books, the problem however is that they are very expensive because for the most part they are out of print and people are charging a fortune for their used copies. If you can get one of them I highly recommend it. The second problem is that Davanloo wrote his books for the academic community meaning that they are not easy reads, they are very technical. Davanloo's radical method is ISTDP (Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy).
The Solution: Recently, a student of Davanloo (Sarah Shikitao-Brown) published a more "user-friendly" version of Davanloo's ISTDP called, Tao Cycle Therapy. In it she has compared Davanloo's ISTDP with Traditional Taoist beliefs and also with the Socio-Biology field (notables like Paul Ekman and Desmond Morris). Tao Cycle Therapy is a highly practical, efficient and effective emotional management strategy that offers a real solution to emotional frustrations. Below are the links to it and Davanloo's books. Obviously you are looking for something solid and practical that you can wrap your mind around, this is my best advice for accomplishing that.
Tao Cycle Therapy: Natural Happiness via Self Directed Cure for Chronic Anxiety & Depression [Updated 2008 3nd Edition]
Unlocking the Unconscious: Collected Papers of Habib Davanloo, Md.
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: Selected Papers of Habib Davanloo, M.D.
Jane Stevens
Great for anxiety in general but not much help for specific anxiety disorders Like the title says its great if you want to look at your anxiety in general but its not for a specific anxiety disorder
Very Very Helpful This is a very good book. It gives you everything you need to know and do in 10 easy steps. I have read many books on anxiety and all the advice boils down to what is written in this book. I believe it to be the most valuable book that I have gotten on anxiety so far. It does not replace what one on one therapy provides because people with anxiety always want to know how they got their problems to begin with. Once that is answered with the aid of a therapist, this book will help you on the road to recovery.
Initial review is good... I haven't finished reading this yet, but overall my first impression is good. It is straight forward and quick to read through. Recommend for anyone working through anxiety issues or helping someone else work through them.
Practical Suggestions available It's conscise, but offers practical suggestions. It dosent really go into depth with any one topic, but gives enough information so you can have something to work with.
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