Martin N. Seif - What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Anxiety Disorders: Key Concepts, Insights, and Interventions

What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Anxiety Disorders is an integrated and practical approach to treating anxiety disorders for general psychotherapists. What is new and exciting is its focus on changing a patients 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, What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Anxiety Disorders 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.

Martin N. Seif, PhD, ABPP, cofounded the Anxiety and Depression Association of America and was a member of its board of directors from 1977 through 1991. Dr. Seif is associate director of the Anxiety and Phobia Treatment Center at White Plains Hospital and a faculty member of New York Presbyterian Hospital/Cornell Medical School. He maintains a private practice in Manhattan and Greenwich, Connecticut, and leads Freedom to Fly, an airport-based program for fearful fliers.

Sally Winston, PsyD, cofounded the Anxiety and Stress Disorders Institute of Maryland, where she is codirector. She is the inaugural recipient of the Jerilyn Ross Award of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America and has decades of experience treating patients, training therapists, and advocating for public awareness of anxiety disorders and advances in their treatment. She has given training workshops in the US, Canada, Asia, and Africa.

What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Anxiety Disorders

Key Concepts, Insights, and Interventions

Martin N. Seif and Sally Winston

First published 2014
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Seif, Martin N.

What every therapist needs to know about anxiety disorders : key concepts, insights,

and interventions / by Martin N. Seif and Sally Winston.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Anxiety disorders. 2. Anxiety disordersTreatment. 3. Anxiety

Physiological aspects. I. Winston, Sally. II. Title.

RC531.S37 2014
616.8522dc23 2013040802

ISBN: 978-0-415-82898-7 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-415-82899-4 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-51884-7 (ebk)

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To David Seif and Emily Seif
To Frank and Phyllis Margolick