For people with phobia and anxiety.
Living with Fear - Understanding & Coping with Anxiety by Isaac m.Marks.
Its found under Health and Fitness section of public library. Explain the reason why some people develop certain phobias and some case studies.
There's another book on psychosis in the Singapore collection by EPIP. Cant remember the title will post another time.
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Book Launched by EPIP
Delusions, Possession or Imagination?
Experiencing and Recovering from Psychosis
Available at Singapore Collection of public libraries.
Book Description
Living with Fear is a self help book that gives practical advice to people who are suffering from phobias panic obsessions rituals or traumatic distress. In the new edition the author has updated the book to include new phobias e.g. fear of Aids contamination as well as the latest treatments. References examples and case studies will be updated throughout the book. The case examples in the current edition are drawn from many parts of the world.
Synopsis
This self-help guide gives practical advice to people who are suffering from phobias, panic, obsessions, rituals or traumatic distress. In this second edition the author has also included new phobias such as the fear of AIDs contamination as well as the latest treatments. The case examples in this edition are drawn from many parts of the world. References, examples and case studies are also provided.
From the Publisher
Consistent best seller in the UK current edition has sold over 50000 copies.
Author is internationally renown.
In a randomised controlled trial, sufferers who used Living With Fear improved as much as sufferers guided by a psychiatrist.
1st edition translated into French German Norwegian Greek Japanese Chinese Thai Hebrew Arabic and about to be published in Spanish and Romanian.
Case studies and examples are taken from round the world
About the Author
Consultant Psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley Hospital trust for 22 years.
Former President of the British and European Associations of Behaviour Therapy.
Former Fellow of the Stanford Centre for Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences and Salmon lecturer to NY Academy of Medicine.
Previously worked at the New York Academy of Medicine, University of Michigan, University of Indiana, and Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Former consultant to the World Health Organisation and National Institute of Mental Health.
London is his home town
Phobias: Fighting the Fear
Helen Saul
Available at NLB
Synopsis
Two in five people struggle through life under the burden of a phobia of some kind. Yet little has been done to help these sufferers understand their affliction and hence minimise it. Recent researches in evolutionary theory, physiology, neuroscience and genetics have begun to analyse the causes and effects of human phobia and have come up with thought-provoking, but widely differing, interpretations and prescriptions. Why are phobias easier to cope with at night or wearing sunglasses? How do phobias differ throughout the world and history? Are phobias biological or psychological? Is the fear of spiders, snakes and darkness an evolutionary throwback? Does aversion therapy work? Is phobia hereditary? The first book to balance all these issues, Phobias: Fighting the Fear is a powerful, uniquely accessible work of popular science.