Quick Fixes for Everyday Fears: A Practical Handbook to Overcoming 100 Stomach-Churning Fears

by Michael Clarkson

Book Overview

We all have fears that influence our daily lives, fears that cause us to procrastinate, avoid things, miscommunicate, and prevent us from being as happy and successful as we could be. In Quick Fixes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569244626
• ISBN13: 9781569244623
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Great book with easy ways to overcome phobias.

Let's face it, in order to change you have to want to change, so even though the exercises and advice in this book is easy and practical, not everyone will actually overcome a phobia or fear simply because they've become used to it and old habits die hard! The book doesn't bore you by going on and on about a subject. It's simple and easy to follow. I offer many of these exercises to the people I counsel and they've found them to be helpful as well.

Very brief though very good

As a psychologist specializing in treating fear, I found this book very interesting. It is written in everyday language so avoids accademic jargon etc. Each of the 100 fears covered has 2 pages explaining the fear and then offers strategies to deal with it. If you want a whole lot of advice on one specific fear e.g. fear of heights, then you may be disappointed. However the 2 pages of advice it gives on each fear is thorough and impressive. Previously I would have thought it impossible to condense down treatment strategies for a particular fear in 2 pages but this author has done it pretty well. Good light read on different types of fears and well worth a look. Anthony Gunn, psychologist and author of Fear Is Power: Turn Your Fears Into Success

A self-help guide to dealing with common fears

Quick Fixes For Everyday Fears: A Practical Handbook to Overcoming 100 Stomach-Churning Fears by investigative journalist Michael Clarkson is a self-help guide to dealing with common fears that interfere with our daily lives and goals, including fear of intimacy, fear of doctors, fear of job interviews, fear of exams, fear of public speaking, and much more. Addressing characteristics, backgrounds, and brief yet effective strategies applicable each specific fear, plus a general chapter addressing relaxation techniques to cope with general worry, Quick Fixes For Everyday Fears is a useful guide filled with tips, tricks and techniques for overcoming psychological obstacles to one's goals. An easy-to-use guide with emphasis on brevity and means to swiftly get through difficult situations.