Dennis Tirch - The Compassionate Mind Approach to Overcoming Anxiety: Using Compassion-focused Therapy

Praise for The Compassionate Mind Approach to Overcoming Anxiety

Learning to treat yourself with kindness and compassion is like learning to place your feet firmly on the ground. If you are going to walk out of your struggle with anxiety, you need to regain your psychological footing, and this book will show you how. In a gentle, wise and step-by-step way, it will help you establish self-compassion as a habit of mind, and bring that healing quality to your thoughts and actions. Highly recommended.

Steven C. Hayes, author of Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life

Tirch writes with warmth and wisdom as if he is speaking directly to you. He shows how compassion, mindfulness and facing the difficulties of anxiety can bring personal growth. Filled with specific and powerful techniques, readers will find a new path to follow with a brilliant and compassionate guide. I highly recommend this book for all who suffer from anxiety.

Robert L. Leahy, Ph.D., author of The Worry Cure; Director, The American Institute for Cognitive Therapy; Clinical Professor of Psychology, Weill-Cornell University Medical College

Easy to read, grounded in solid research and filled with useful exercises, this book is a godsend for those who suffer from anxiety.

Kristin Neff, PhD, author of Self-Compassion; Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin

A superb introduction to a revolutionary new way of dealing with anxiety. The reader is led on a compelling exploration of how the anxious mind works, followed by masterful exercises that tap our innate capacity for comfort and healing self-compassion. Seamlessly integrating important research and extensive clinical experience, the author speaks through the pages with the wise, gentle voice of experience. Go ahead try it and see what happens!

Christopher K. Germer, PhD, Clinical Instructor, Harvard Medical School; author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion; Faculty, Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) has led the way in creating solid science-based treatments. Traditionally, CBT has been an action-oriented treatment. And that action orientation has produced a lot of benefits. More recently, CBT has begun to include more acceptance, mindfulness and self-compassion focused work. Dennis Tirch is a master of both where CBT has been and of where CBT is going. In this book, you will find a broad contemporary understanding of anxiety and a host of very, very practical ways to come into a more compassionate and effective relationship with anxiety. The book offers a different way of being with anxiety that will have implications in your life that extend well beyond anxiety. You can expect changes in your relationship with anxiety that offer a path to rich and engaged living.

Kelly G. Wilson PhD, co-founder of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy; author of Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong; Associate Professor, University of Mississippi

Writing in an informative, highly engaging manner, Dr Tirch shares his considerable wisdom in both compassion-based practices and behaviour therapy. The reader is given practical and powerful tools for cultivating a sense of self-compassion in the face of anxiety. A genuine pleasure to read.

Douglas Mennin, Associate Professor, CUNY Hunter College