What experts are saying about Don't Panic, Revised Edition

"Hope and guidance are often sought in the pages of books, and on occasion a volume generously rewards the seeker with a sense of comfort and direction. Dr. Wilson's Don't Panic is one of those books for people with symptoms of anxiety. He provides readers with the full understanding they need to begin to recover from debilitating and demoralizing anxiety disorders. . He translates his pioneering clinical innovations into everyday language that adapt complex models of treatment into easily applied principles. This is a superb book from a well-respected expert."

Aaron T. Beck, MD, University Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania

"Professionals often overlook books of the self-help genre as shallow and superficial. What a delightful surprise Don't Panic offers instead. It is a compendium of clinically sound information which articulates the physical, psychological, cognitive and behavioral components of panic disorders and details a plethora of interventions drawn from a broad and comprehensive approach to this set of problems. Don't Panic is a necessity for professionals wishing to bolster their assessment and intervention tools and more efficiently help their patients and clients achieve independence."

"Dr. Wilson's very unusual, detailed book, Don't Panic, should enable the genetically, highly sensitive and imaginative phobic person, to better understand and accept as Dr. Claire Weekes has emphasized, how, in his or her phobic situations, their automatic, unrealistic but very, very real, disorganizing, bodily reactions to their growing numbers of imagined dangers, can cause increasing and overwhelming disturbances in their organisms.

"With such growing understanding, built up slowly from repeated personal phobic experiences, the phobic person can gradually learn to shift his or her focus of attention in the phobic situation, more and more, from disorganizing, scary imaginings, to organizing, realistic reactions. Dr. Wilson has created a detailed, clear, highly specific book which can be most helpful to phobic people and to those who work to help the phobic individual."

"The information contained in this book is up-to-date, factual, and brimming with useful advice on dealing with panic and related disorders. The author, Dr. Reid Wilson, is one of the leading clinical authorities on treating panic disorder and his knowledge and many years of clinical experience clearly shows through in this book."

"In Don't Panic, Dr. R. Reid Wilson offers those individuals who suffer anxiety problems all the things they most desperately need; compassion, support, encouragement, perspective, and, perhaps best of all, practical methods for overcoming the often crippling effects of anxiety. Dr. Wilson has done an outstanding job of simplifying matters without oversimplifying them. He empowers readers by making strong, clear statements that anxiety attacks can be managed, controlled, prevented, and conquered. Any therapist who works with anxiety - and who doesn't? - can feel comfortable recommending this book to his or her clients."

"Don't Panic is the self-help book I recommend most frequently to patients. It is easy to read, practical, informative, and up-to-date."

"The revised edition updates readers on the breakthroughs in self-help and medications. This is an exceptionally clear, highly readable guide for professionals as well as sufferers."

"An excellent self-help book for people who suffer panic attacks. Unusually clear and immensely practical."

"If anxiety and panic have gotten the best of your clients or patients, Don't Panic, Reid Wilson's practical and readable book, will tell them what they need to know to win back more and more of their lives from fear and dread. It's a Whole Earth Catalog^© of tools and information about anxiety and panic and how to successfully resolve them."

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