Anxiety Disorders and Phobias: A Cognitive Perspective by Aaron Beck, Ph.D. Gary Emery and Ruth Greenberg

"Indispensable reading for students and experienced practitioners alike." -- --Hans Strupp, Ph.D.A

"The authors succeed in adding the very important cognitive dimension to our understanding of the anxiety disordersstrongly recommended." -- --Nancy C. Andreason,American Journal of Psychiatry --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Every day, veterans of the Vietnam War commit suicide in deep depression. With the United States almost continually cutting its Veterans Administration budget, you would think that the V.A. would give up, but books like those of Beck help it treat and cure depression and anxiety. The Cognitive Therapy uses Socratic questioning, training people to ask why they feel sad or anxious, what their answers mean, to substitute more effective coping thoughts for ineffective thoughts and wrong ideas (illogical ideas, like "everybody is against me," "I'm born to fail," etc.). Patients record in diaries or logs what events trigger these wrong thoughts and learn to instantly respond with other thoughts and actions. This is one of the greatest books in psychology and psychiatry, and should be read by the young people of all ages (many of whom are depressed) as well as the older ones.