Anxiety disorders and phobias : a cognitive perspective

The founder of cognitive therapy and two colleagues apply the basic concepts of cognitive therapy, used successfully for many years in treating depression, to the treatment of anxiety disorders and phobias. Aaron T. Beck And His Two Colleagues Show How The Basic Concepts Of Cognitive Therapy, Used Successfully For Many Years In Treating Depression, Are Also Highly Effective In Treating People Who Suffer From Anxiety And Phobias. The Widely Acclaimed Father Of Cognitive Psychotherapy Presents A New Preface To This Gold-standard Book On Anxiety Disorders.--book Jacket. Turning Anxiety On Its Head : An Overview -- Symptoms And Their Significance -- The Cognitive Model Of Threat Reaction -- Cognitive Structures And Anxiogenic Rules -- Vulnerability : The Core Of Anxiety Disorders -- Generalized Anxiety Disorder And Panic Disorder -- Simple Phobias -- The Agoraphobic Syndrome -- The Evaluation Anxieties -- Principles Of Cognitive Therapy -- Strategies And Techniques For Cognitive Restructuring -- Modifying Imagery -- Modifying The Affective Component -- Modifying The Behavioral Component -- Restructuring A Patient's Assumptions And Major Issues. Aaron T. Beck And Gary Emery With Ruth L. Greenberg ; [with A New Preface By Aaron T. Beck]. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Aaron T. Beck (the author of Love Is Never Enough) and his two colleagues show how the basic concepts of cognitive therapy, used successfully for many years in treating depression, are also highly effective in treating people who suffer from anxiety and phobias. The widely acclaimed "father of cognitive psychotherapy" presents a new preface to this gold-standard book on anxiety disorders. "By one of the leaders in the field of cognitive therapy, this is a thorough and readily applicable guide to the cognitive structures and restructuring techniques for generalized anxiety, panic, simple phobia, agoraphobia, and social phobia." - Core Readings in Psychiatry (1995). The 15th anniversary edition of this foundation work on cognitive therapy features a new introduction by Aaron 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 An accomplished violinist finds that his fingers become stiff as he starts to play in front of an audience.