Beyond Anxiety and Phobia
A Step-By-Step Guide to Lifetime Recovery
New Harbinger Publications
Available: 02/27/01
8.5 x 11 · 264 pages
9781572242296
CDN $41.95
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Panic attacks, phobias, and other problems with anxiety have been effectively treated with cognitive behavioral therapy and medication for many years. Now even more help for these conditions is available. In Beyond Anxiety & Phobia, Dr. Edmund J. Bourne (author of the best-selling Anxiety & Phobia Workbook) offers a full spectrum of complimentary approaches that get to the heart of anxiety and phobia and go beyond standard treatments and medication.
In this book you will find guidelines and strategies that can help you to:
-Reduce anxiety by simplifying your lifestyle and environment.
-Uncover core personality traits and fears that perpetuate anxiety.
-Discover purpose in your life that helps overcome a sense of meaninglessness.
-Embrace spirituality to change both your perspective on your problem and your ability to heal it.
-Create a vision of your recovery that will attract a positive outcome.
-Use alternative methods such as herbs, diet, yoga, massage, and acupuncture for greater relaxation and ease in your life.
-Practice mediation so you can learn to witness rather than simply react to anxiety and fear.
Dr. Bourne has helped many of his clients achieve a more complete and lasting recovery in overcoming difficulties with anxiety by combining these methods with conventional treatment.
Edmund J. Bourne, PhD , has specialized in the treatment of anxiety disorders and related problems for over three decades. For many years, Bourne was director of the Anxiety Treatment Center in San Jose and Santa Rosa, CA. His bestselling anxiety books, which have helped over 1.5 million readers throughout the world, include The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook, 8th Edition, Beyond Anxiety and Phobia, and Coping with Anxiety, 2nd Edition, and Natural Relief for Anxiety. The latest 8th Edition of The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook was released in July 2025. Other related publications include Pocket Therapy for Anxiety (fits into your pocket) and The Anxiety & Phobia Card Deck.
In the past few years, Dr. Bourne has carried forward his long-standing interest in philosophy, dating back to a major in philosophy at Colgate University in the late sixties. He has recently published a new book, Journeys of the Mind: The Benefits of Exploring Philosophy, which addresses long-standing philosophical issues such as different views of the afterlife, the nature of consciousness, the scope of the Cosmos (what lies beyond the physical universe), integrating science and spirituality, and a natural ethics based in the inherent order of the universe rather than as a human construct.
