What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Anxiety Disorders

<p><em>What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Anxiety Disorders</em> is an integrated and practical approach to treating anxiety disorders for general psychotherapists. What is new and exciting is its focus on changing a patient’s relationship to anxiety in order to enable enduring recovery rather than merely offering a menu of techniques for controlling symptoms. Neither a CBT manual nor an academic text nor a self-help book <i>What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Anxiety Disorders</i> offers page after page of key insights into ways to help patients suffering from phobias panic attacks unwanted intrusive thoughts compulsions and worries. The authors offer a rich array of therapist-patient vignettes case examples stories and metaphors that will complement the work of trainees and experienced clinicians of every orientation. Readers will come away from the book with a new framework for understanding some of the most frustrating clinical challenges in anxiety disorders including reassurance junkies endless obsessional loops and the paradoxical effects of effort.</p>