If you suffer from anxiety, panic disorder or phobias, you may feel as if you have lost control of your life. How can you master your fears before they take over you completely?

The Anxiety and Phobias Handbook has helped more than a million readers achieve significant and lasting recovery from generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety, specific phobias, panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and other anxiety-related problems.

Completely revised and updated, the handbook includes the most effective techniques for assessing and treating anxiety, detailed information on the latest clinical studies, and a full arsenal of skills to calm fears and master anxious thoughts. Here you will also find new information on preventing relapses after successful treatment, on drug treatment, the meal, as well as recent advances in neurobiology. Written by one of the leading experts in the field of cognitive-behavioral therapy, The Anxiety and Phobias Handbook contains what you need to let go of whatever is holding you back from enjoying a happy and fulfilling life.

Here you will find:

• relaxation and breathing techniques;
• skills to prevent and deal with panic attacks;
• proven strategies for changing negative inner monologue and wrong beliefs;
• new research data on the exposure therapy technique;
• necessary changes in the way of eating, living, etc.