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Understanding and Treating Anxiety Disorders: An Integrative Approach to Healing the Wounded Self provides in an effective new way to treat anxiety disorders that shows how, by evaluating the specific needs of a client and selecting appropriate approaches from several different therapeutic methods, one can identify and treat the specific emotional basis for a particular anxiety. This book includes an integrative theory of the etiology of various anxiety disorders and an integrative psychotherapy that incorporates psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive-behavioral, humanistic-experiential, and biomedical perspectives on anxiety. The approach is based in the premise that no single psychotherapeutic orientation is sufficient for the comprehensive and durable treatment of anxiety disorders. The integrated theories are first presented for anxiety disorders in general and then are applied to specific anxiety disorders, including specific phobias, social phobias, panic disorder with and without agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. The author proposes that, in all of these variations of anxiety disorders, wounds to the client's sense of self are always central, and only by taking a tailored approach to a client's specific wounds can healing begin. This research-informed and clinically tested approach to helping clients resolve anxiety disorders will be of great interest to mental health practitioners of all orientations.
| Preface | p. vii |
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Foundations for Understanding Anxiety | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| On the Nature and Classification of Anxiety | p. 13 |
| Perspectives on Anxiety Disorders | p. 25 |
| An Integrative Theory of Anxiety Disorders | p. 59 |
| Toward an Integrative Etiological Model of Anxiety Disorders | p. 61 |
| An Integrative Model of the Self | p. 81 |
| The Wounded Self: An Integrative Etiological Model of Anxiety Disorders | p. 105 |
| The Application of the Integrative Model to Specific Anxiety Disorders | p. 125 |
| An Integrative Therapy for Anxiety Disorders | p. 155 |
| Toward an Integrative Psychotherapy for Anxiety Disorders | p. 157 |
| An Integrative Psychotherapy for Anxiety Disorders | p. 191 |
| The Integrative Therapy Applied to Specific Anxiety Disorders | p. 213 |
| Future Directions and a Final Summary | p. 233 |
| Wolfe's Focusing Technique | p. 251 |
| References | p. 253 |
| Author Index | p. 273 |
| Subject Index | p. 279 |
| About the Author | p. 301 |
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ISBN: 9781591471967
ISBN-10: 1591471966
Audience:
General
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 304
Published: 1st June 2005
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 26.67 x 18.42
x 1.91
Weight (kg): 0.74
