Anxiety Disorders and Phobias: A Cognitive Perspective

At the forefront of the cognitive revolution, renowned psychiatrist Aaron T. Beck turned to information processing in order to understand the sources, consequences, and cures of anxiety disorders and phobias. In the first half of this classic text, Beck elaborates on the clinical picture of anxiety disorders and phobias and presents an explanatory model to account for the rich complexity of these phenomena. Cognitive psychologist Gary Emery then details the therapeutic principles, strategies, and tactics developed on the basis of the cognitive model of anxiety disorders and phobias. This fifteenth anniversary edition of the foundational work on cognitive therapy features a new introduction by Beck, in which he offers an up-to-date appraisal of the current state of cognitive therapy and its application to the treatment of phobias and anxiety.

Aaron T. Beck is university professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Director of the centre for Cognitive Therapy in Philadelphia.Gary Emery is director of the Los Angeles centre for Cognitive Therapy and Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UCLA.Ruth L. Greenberg is a psychologist in private practice, and trains psychotherapists at the centre for Cognitive Therapy.

Aaron T. Beck (the author of Love Is Never Enough) and his two colleagues show how the basic concepts of cognitive therapy, used successfully for many years in treating depression, are also highly effective in treating people who suffer from anxiety and phobias. The widely acclaimed "father of cognitive psychotherapy" presents a new preface to this gold-standard book on anxiety disorders.

At the forefront of the cognitive revolution, renowned psychiatrist Aaron T. Beck turned to information processing in order to understand the sources, consequences, and cures of anxiety disorders and phobias. In the first half of this classic text, Beck elaborates on the clinical picture of anxiety disorders and phobias and presents an explanatory model to account for the rich complexity of these phenomena. Cognitive psychologist Gary Emery then details the therapeutic principles, strategies, and tactics developed on the basis of the cognitive model of anxiety disorders and phobias. This fifteenth anniversary edition of the foundational work on cognitive therapy features a new introduction by Beck, in which he offers an up-to-date appraisal of the current state of cognitive therapy and its application to the treatment of phobias and anxiety.

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