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This timely volume examines the conflict between human individual life and larger forces that are not controllable. Drawing on recent literature in phenomenological and existential psychology it calls for a more nuanced understanding of the human predicament. Focusing on the co-occurring crises of climate change and the COVID-19 epidemic, it explores the nature of widespread anxiety and the long-term human consequences. It calls for an expansion of current research that would include the arts and humanities for critical insights into how this essential conflict between humanity and nature may be reconciled.

This text provides background on the history of perinatal psychiatry, and discusses future directions in the field. It clearly defines perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs), which are the most common complication of pregnancy. When left untreated, PMADs are morbid and devastating for both the patient and their entire family. It reviews gold standard recommendations for the treatment of PMADs, including evidence-based psychotherapies, as well as risk-benefit analysis of psychotropic medication use in pregnancy and lactation. Additionally, common presentations of depression, anxiety, and trauma in pregnancy and postpartum women, as well as mania, psychosis, suicidal and homicidal thoughts are reviewed. Women's Mood Disorders: A Clinician's Guide to Perinatal Psychiatry highlights special considerations in pregnancy, including teenage pregnancies, hyperemesis gravidum, eating disorders, substance abuse disorders, as well as infertility, miscarriageand loss. The text concludes with outlining the importance of collaborative care in providing gold standard treatment of perinatal women and review documentation and legal considerations. This handbook will help educate and train future psychiatrists and OBGYNs in feeling confident and comfortable assessing and treating pregnant women who suffer from PMADs.

What if you could turn anxiety into your superpower? A groundbreaking approach that has helped thousands by founder of The Anxiety Clinic.For readers of The Resilience Project, fans of Brene Brown, comes the tried-and-tested method that has helped thousands turn anxiety into action.'Jodie has an extraordinary desire to help those struggling with anxiety. Her knowledge on the topic is quite remarkable, so too her drive to make a difference to people's lives. The Mind Strength Method is hugely beneficial for anyone looking to get the best out of both themselves and those around them. At a time where the world is struggling with anxiety and depression, it is good to know that programs such as Jodie's truly make a difference.'HUGH VAN CUYLENBURG, author The Resilience Project'We live in a fretful age. Certainties are collapsing. Demands are multiplying. Anxiety is an epidemic. Luckily, Dr Lowinger has the measure of your amygdala. In this book she explains the'flight, fight or freeze'response that drives so much of our stress. But her real gift is her techniques for reframing those responses to return power and strength to our daily lives. Read it.'HUGH RIMINTON, journalist'If you or your child wants to build resilience in the face of stress and anxiety, read this book. Now.'APRIL PALMERLEE, CEO of the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia'Dr Jodie's method has helped me so much and I know this practical resource will help so many others work through anxiety. I can't wait to share it with the world!'LAURA HENSHAW, co-founder KIC'Dr Jodie Lowinger's ability to distill down and simplify life's complexities into useful tools that can be applied everyday in both personal and professional situations is incredible. I would highly recommend this in both a personal and professional context. Very empowering!'BRIAN SIEMSEN, Global CEO, Claim Central Consolidated, and ex NRL football player'Whether you need help in your personal life or in business or both, Jodie's Mind Strength methods are remarkable and I highly recommend her.'VINCE FROST'Kiss your old life and habits goodbye! Dr Jodie delivers multiple lightbulb moments as she shows readers the true strength we each possess for real mental change - both personally and professionally.'ROBIN ROBERSON, managing director, Claim Central North America'Dr Jodie's Mind Strength Method is a must! Her calm and constant nature is unique, as is her empathetic and encouraging take on building resilience and courage, and overcoming adversity. Her advice and techniques help tackle challenging situations in a constructive and uncomplicated manner. This mood-boosting book is packed with positive and practical ways to live the best life you can, create confidence, reduce stress, and take back control of your life.'KERRI MCCALLUM, Editor-in-chief, NewsCorp'The Mind Strength Method is a must read book for those suffering anxiety or anyone who deals with stress. Some simple and achievable tools for navigating a busy and unpredictable lifestyle which is most of us really! Combining the fundamentals of neuroscience, psychology and positive thinking, the Mind Strength Method is the'Google maps'for navigating anxiety, stress and a busy life.'ASSOCIATE PROF RALPH MOBBS, neurosurgeonWhat if you could turn anxiety into your superpower? Dr Jodie Lowinger - clinical psychologist, executive coach and founder of The Anxiety Clinic - is at the forefront of mental health practice and, in a world where approximately one in four people experience challenging anxiety, has directly helped thousands. Through her Mind Strength Methodology, and now in her first book, Dr Jodie offers a logical and practical toolkit using the best evidence-based techniques to: - overcome fear-driven thoughts and behaviours and turn them into empowered action - break free from being bossed around by worry

Das Buch beschreibt, wie Ängste (entwicklungsbedingt) im Kindes- und Jugendalter überhaupt entstehen und wie sie sich im Kontakt zu anderen Menschen zeigen und regulieren lassen. Die LeserInnen können anhand von Fallbeispielen nachvollziehen, wie Ängste sich zu Angststörungen auswachsen und damit die weitere Entwicklung hemmen können. Ängste belasten sowohl die Betroffenen selbst als auch die Menschen in ihrem sozialen Umfeld. Als'stille Störungen'sind sie Schrittmacher für psychische Auffälligkeiten im Erwachsenenalter und stellen in ihrer komplexen Psychodynamik besondere Anforderungen an Diagnostik und Behandlung. Die Autorin schildert, wie sich Ängste im Verlauf einer psychotherapeutischen Behandlung innerlich und in Beziehung zu anderen ausdrücken und verändern lassen. Dieses Buch gibt einen Überblick und leistet praxisnahe Hilfestellung für alle, die professionell mit gefährdeten oder betroffenen Kindern und Jugendlichen zu tun haben. - Psychodynamisches Erklärungsmodell zum Verständnis von Angststörungen - Beschreibt und erklärt Ängste und den Verlauf ihrer psychotherapeutischen Behandlung - Erläutert praxisnahe Anwendungsmöglichkeiten mit Fallbeispielen Dieses Buch richtet sich an: - Kinder- und JugendlichenpsychiaterInnen, -psychotherapeutInnen und -psychologInnen - KinderärztInnen - Erziehungs-und Betreuungspersonal in Heimen, Krankenhäusern und Reha-Einrichtungen, Personal in Jugendämtern und Beratungsstellen

Anxiety in Preschool Children provides a comprehensive, integrated, and scientifically current resource for both clinicians and researchers who work with or encounter anxiety in preschool-aged children. With a focus on organizing and consolidating the most current research, this informative new volume offers an assortment of practical interventions and evidence-based strategies for assessment, treatment, and prevention that are tailored to preschool-aged children. This groundbreaking volume will prove to be an invaluable resource for anyone working with this unique patient population, from parents to practitioners.

Anxiety and related disorders are common conditions that disproportionately affect women. In this book, the epidemiology, psychobiology, diagnosis, evaluation, pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy of major anxiety and related disorders are examined with special reference to the effects of gender and sex on clinical presentation and treatment. The conditions considered include generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder and social anxiety disorder. In addition, the management of anxiety and related disorders during pregnancy and lactation are discussed. Two concluding chapters specifically address anxiety disorders in women and in men, summarizing key points for clinicians and researchers. The authors are leading clinicians, including both psychiatrists and psychologists, from around the globe.

This work challenges the notion that anxiety and depression amount to a mental illness denoting that something is wrong with the individual sufferer. Instead, anxiety and depression are described as perfectly rational responses to difficulties in the sufferer's world, experienced subjectively by that person. An essential contrast is drawn between objective conceptions of normality (what reality ought to be as per commercial and other objectifying sources) and the reality of the individual's subjective experience of the world (abuse, unemployment, and so on). Chapters include tackling the myth of normality; examining shyness; and analysing the way in which assumptions behind the use of language can foster anxiety and depression. The book's primary purpose is to explain the meaning of anxiety as experienced by the sufferer. These insights also lead to a view, by way of secondary purpose, that the role of the therapist is not in'curing'the individual, but rather to negotiate demystification and to provide insight into the effects of the problems in the sufferer's world, based on the sufferer and the therapist's shared subjective understanding.

The Art of BART (the Bilateral Affective Reprocessing of Thoughts) is a practitioner's introduction to an innovative psychotherapy model that draws on and integrates well-proven therapies (such as EMDR, sensorimotor psychotherapy and CBT) and on the Indian chakra tradition and other historical beliefs. As a therapeutic approach it has particular relevance to those who are living with the consequences of a traumatic event and those who seek after peak performance in fields such as sport and the arts. The book introduces the reader to BART as a psychotherapy that can benefit patients with disorders such as anorexia nervosa and dissociative identity disorder, and those who have suffered a traumatic event. It also looks at the information processing of the mind-body at the levels of the gut heart and the gut brain, and it makes connections between the endocrine and immune systems and the chakras of Indian tradition.

Virtual realities provide an outstanding tool in anxiety research. A fear conditioning study investigates and illustrates the development of anxiety disorders in humans. Hannah Genheimer describes the scientific background of fear and anxiety and presents an empirical study in a highly controlled virtual environment. Psychophysiological as well as subjective data on the participants'fear and anxiety clearly show contextual fear conditioning. Cue conditioning in the light of one-trial learning is discussed. The results emphasize the promising application of virtual environments in psychotherapy.

This volume brings together research into diverse aspects of social anxiety and its clinical form, social phobia, in adolescents. Development of the condition, clinical manifestations and treatment strategies are all addressed, with emphasis on ways in which adolescent development and context are reflected in the manifestation and treatment of symptoms. The book is divided into three parts that review epidemiological, neurobiological and sociopsychological research on vulnerability factors, examine the phenomenology and assessment of social anxiety and phobia in different developmental contexts and discuss evidence-based prevention and treatment options for adolescent social anxiety and phobia. Social Anxiety and Phobia in Adolescents will be informative and interesting for all child and adolescent psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and psychotherapists as well as for school psychologists and counsellors.

Besides constituting a fundamental milestone in contemporary Western thought, Sigmund Freud's monumental corpus of work laid the theoretical-technical foundations on which psychoanalysts based the construction and development of the comprehensive edifice in which they abide today. This edifice, so varied in tones, so heterogeneous, even contradictory at times, has stood strong because of these foundations. Indeed, this book attempts to show, through its various chapters written by psychoanalysts from different parts of the world and sustaining varied paradigms, this enriching heterogeneity coupled with the invisible thread which strings together the diversity lent to it by its Freudian foundations. One of the characteristics of the Freudian opus highlighted in this context is the fact that when we are able to study it in perspective, it is possible to glimpse a path of incessant improvement, where ideas and concepts are constantly reformulated and become more complex as clinical facts and methodological and epistemological resources call for it. Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety is the irrefutable proof of this affirmation.

Fühlen Sie sich niedergeschlagen und energielos? Sind Sie ständig überlastet und unzufrieden? Leiden Sie unter Ängsten und körperlichen Reaktionen wie Schwindel, Herzrasen oder -schmerzen? Der Ratgeber hilft Ihnen bei der Entscheidung, ob eine Erkrankung vorliegt, Selbsthilfe möglich oder ein Arztbesuch nötig ist. Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe bei Depression und Angst: Ursachen und Eskalationsmechanismen bei Depression, Burnout, Angst- und Panikstörung werden erklärt Schritt für Schritt die Eskalation unterbrechen, Energie gewinnen, die Ausgangsprobleme lösen Ausführliche und umsetzbare Aufgabenstellungen, die Ihnen helfen, Ihre gesamte Lebenssituation zu optimieren Im Rahmen einer ganzheitlichen Lebenskunst das Gesunde fördern und die Stärken stärken Geeignet auch als Begleitmaterial für Psychotherapie (insbesondere kognitive und achtsamkeitsbasierte Verhaltenstherapie) Mit Hörbuch zum DownloadGeschrieben für Klienten mit Angststörung und Depression, ihre Angehörigen – zur Empfehlung durch Psychotherapeuten, Psychiater, Klinische Psychologen, Mitarbeiter in Beratungsstellen.

Nach ADAC-Schätzungen sind in Deutschland mindestens 1 Million Menschen mit Führerschein von Fahrängsten betroffen - z.B. Angst vor dem Großstadtverkehr, vor der Autobahn, vor Beifahrern, vor Unfällen. Pro Jahr finden in Deutschland 1,4 Millionen Fahrrprüfungen statt, davon sind 400.000 Wiederholungsprüfungen. Viele der Prüflinge leiden an Prüfungsangst. Auch geübte Autofahrer leiden teilweise unter Ängsten. Es geht dabei um Drängelsituationen auf der Autobahn, wenn Raser rücksichtslos nah auffahren und mit der Lichthupe blenden. Laut Untersuchung einer großen Versicherung fühlen über 90% aller Autofahrer in solchen Situationen Ängste. Das Buch ist ein Ratgeber für Betroffene. Es zeigt in sieben Schritten, die Ängste zu verstehen und zu bewältigen. Die Anregungen basieren auf Praxiserfahrungen der Autoren („Angsthasen-Methode“) und auf Selbsthilfe-Methoden der Verhaltenstherapie. Leserinnen und Lesern wird anhand von Fallbeispielen die Problemsituation und die Bewältigung der Ängste erläutert. Anschließend finden sie Fragebögen zur Selbsteinschätzung, Selbsthilfetipps, die Antworten auf häufig gestellte Fragen, Übungsaufgaben und Lösungsvorschläge. Abgerundet wird der Ratgeber mit einem Service-Teil mit Adressen.

Children vary in their response to the death of a loved one. Some children develop relatively few symptoms or problems, while others face significant or prolonged symptoms, such as posttraumatic stress disorder or anxiety. Similarly, children vary in their circumstances and preferences. Thus, clinicians who work with bereaved children must customize interventions to meet the specific needs of each individual child. This book presents integratedg grief therapy for children---an evidence-based model for treating bereaved children that draws extensively on cognitive-behavioral, family systems, and narrative approaches to therapy. The model shows clinicians how to assess the needs of bereaved children, treat common distressing symptoms (depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and behavioral problems), and address the grief itself while fostering resilience. Because emotional and behavioral problems following grief are manifested in different ways, the model allows for flexibility based on the age, symptom presentation, and needs of the child. And because the inclusion of a surviving parent or caregiver is critical to working with grieving children, the model involves the parent in the interventions. With a thorough literature review on bereavement in childhood, extensive case examples and dialogues to illustrate therapeutic techniques, and over 20 activity handouts that therapists can photocopy and use in sessions, this book provides everything needed to treat bereaved children.

Cognitive behavioural therapy has proven to be an effective treatment for anxiety disorders in children and young people. This book provides an overview of CBT and explores how it can be used to help children with anxiety disorders.In Anxiety: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with Children and Young People Paul Stallard describes the nature and extent of anxiety problems that are suffered in childhood and discusses evidence for the effectiveness of the cognitive behavioural model as a method of treatment.This concise and accessible book, written specifically for the clinician, provides a clear outline of how CBT can be used with children suffering from anxiety disorders in an easy to follow format. The book provides many ideas that can be incorporated into everyday practice, as well as clinical vignettes, case examples, and worksheets for use with the client.This straightforward text will prove essential reading for professionals involved with children who have significant anxiety problems including mental health workers, social services staff and those working in educational settings.The final chapter of this book contains worksheets that can be downloaded free of charge to purchasers of the print version. Please visit the website to find out more about this facility.

Children's Anxiety: A Contextual Approach provides an introduction to anxiety in children and teenagers, emphasising the importance of understanding the life circumstances of young people. The book provides an up-to-date account of research on the developmental, familial and social context of child anxiety, along with nine vibrant and detailed case studies illustrating the ways in which young people can be helped to deal with serious and complex anxiety problems.In order to begin to understand complex anxiety within children's life circumstances Part One of the book provides the reader with a developmental framework for thinking about children's anxiety. Part Two then presents nine in depth case studies, organised not by the type or nature of anxiety but by the context within which problematic anxiety can occur. Part Three acts as a summary of the key points emerging from the clinical case studies.This book will be essential reading for those working and training in the specialist field of child mental health, as well as community and hospital professionals working with children and young people, including teachers, doctors, social workers and nurses.

People like to talk. We know that talking to an attentive and thoughtful listener can be helpful in clarifying conscious and unconscious feelings, thoughts, and motivations. But is talk enough? The complex physiology of anxiety and traumatic stress reactions is often stubbornly persistent, despite therapeutic exploration in both conscious and unconscious areas of the mind. In the case of severe trauma, talking can stir up the emotions and associated bodily disturbance without providing any resolution - sometimes leaving clients feeling worse. The developing field of energy psychology offers an entirely new perspective and gamut of techniques for locating where these traumatic patterns are encoded. They are not in the mind - but in the energy system at the interface of psyche and soma. By addressing these realms concurrently, a powerful therapeutic synergy emerges that allows rapid and deep shifts in the patterns of distress that drive the psychosomatic system.

This textbook discusses anxiety - a pervasive and significant negative effect that is a central feature of many psychological problems, including those that were frequently called'neuroses'. Anxiety is an intriguing and complex phenomenon that lends itself to cognitive analyses. It involves the interplay of vigilance, attention, perception, reasoning and memory, the very meat of cognitive processing. Research on anxiety has accelerated, specialized clinics for dealing with anxiety disorders have been introduced and self-help groups established in many parts of the world. This growth is justified because anxiety is one of the most prominent and pervasive emotions, and large numbers of people are distressed by inappropriate or excessive anxiety.

Donald Kalsched explores the interior world of dream and fantasy images encountered in therapy with people who have suffered unbearable life experiences. He shows how, in an ironical twist of psychical life, the very images which are generated to defend the self can become malevolent and destructive, resulting in further trauma for the person. Why and how this happens are the questions the book sets out to answer. Drawing on detailed clinical material, the author gives special attention to the problems of addiction and psychosomatic disorder, as well as the broad topic of dissociation and its treatment. By focusing on the archaic and primitive defenses of the self he connects Jungian theory and practice with contemporary object relations theory and dissociation theory. At the same time, he shows how a Jungian understanding of the universal images of myth and folklore can illuminate treatment of the traumatised patient. Trauma is about the rupture of those developmental transitions that make life worth living. Donald Kalsched sees this as a spiritual problem as well as a psychological one and in The Inner World of Trauma he provides a compelling insight into how an inner self-care system tries to save the personal spirit.

This book is written for everyone who has experienced severe anxiety and wants to be free from abnormal fear. It is also for therapists, couselors, and other helping professionals who treat patients suffering from anxiety disorders.A Jason Aronson Book