How to control your anxiety before it controls you
By: Albert Ellis
Publisher: MJF Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781567318319
Subjects: Anxiety; Interpersonal relations; Rational emotive behavior therapy; Popular works
Description: Our own irrational attitudes and beliefs often influence our feelings of anger, fear, and anxiety. Only when we examine and understand our false ideas and their harmful effects can we begin to loosen their grip on us. If we change our mindset, we can control our relationships with other people and our reactions to the events in our lives. This is the core of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), the treatment system developed by Albert Ellis, Ph. D., one of America's best-known psychologists. Here, he shows us how to use the strategies and techniques of REBT to stop our anxieties from limiting our lives. Throughout, he emphasizes that our emotions come from within, and as surely as we create them, we can control them---and conquer the paralyzing power of self-pity, depression, fear, and anxiety.--From publisher description.
Notes: Previously published: Secaucus, N.J. : Carol Pub. Group, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-236) and index.
Table of contents: title: Why i am convinced that you can control your anxiety before it controls you; title: What anxiety is and how it often controls you; title: Luckily, most of your anxiety is self-created and can be uncreated; title: Irrational beliefs that make you anxious; title: Disputing your anxiety-creating irrational beliefs; title: Using rational coping self-statements; title: Using positive visualization and modeling; title: Using cost-benefit analysis to control your anxiety; title: Using educational methods to control your anxiety; title: Using relaxation and cognitive distraction methods; title: Using reframing methods; title: Using problem-solving methods to control your anxiety; title: Using unconditional self-acceptance (USA); title: Using unconditional acceptance of others to control your anxiety; title: Using rational emotive imagery; title: Using shame-attacking exercises to control your anxiety; title: Some forceful and dramatic methods of controlling your anxiety; title: Firmly convincing yourself of your rational and self-helping beliefs; title: Using a sense of humor to control your anxiety; title: Using exposure and behavioral desensitization; title: Tolerating and staying in anxiety-provoking situations; title: Using reinforcement methods to control your anxiety; title: Using penalties to control your anxiety; title: Using the method of fixed role-playing to control your anxiety; title: What about biology and the use of medications?; title: A remarkably efficient way to control your anxiety before it controls you; title: 104 rational maxims to control my anxious thinking; title: 62 rational maxims to control my anxious feelings and my bodily reactions to anxiety; title: 65 rational maxims to help me act against my discomfort anxiety and my irrational fears.