Review
Offers a brief treatment method for phobic and obsessive disorders consisting of usually less than 20 sessions, focusing on reframing patients' representations of self and other and on changing the relational patterns that sustain fearful perceptions. Includes lengthy clinical examples of a case of agoraphobia and a case of phobic- obsessive compulsions. (
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Book Description
This book is about psychological disorders based on irrational fears - those apparently unmotivated, paralyzing, panic-filled, gut-wrenching fears whose multiplicity and diversity are barely contained in the diagnoses phobias and obsessional disorders. The author, world-renowned therapist Giorgio Nardone, offers a brief (usually less than 20-session) treatment method that leads to a change in the interpersonal, cognitive, and emotional organizations underlying these painful and all-too-common problems. Therapists using a strategic framework focus on reframing patients' representations of self and other, and on changing the relational patterns that sustain fearful perceptions. Based on extensive research and illustrated with in-depth clinical examples, this book offers hope to those whose lives have been unnecessarily limited by their phobias and obsessions.