Table of Contents

PART I: INTRODUCTORY
Chapter 1. Introduction and overview
Chapter 2. The Experience of Panic (why don't people recover spontaneously?)
Chapter 3. The Panic Trick (recovery requires breaking the trick)
Chapter 4. The Recovery challenge (developing a workable view of the problem)
Chapter 5. Breaking the Trick

PART II: THE INGREDIENTS FOR RECOVERY
Chapter 6. What maintains panic?
Chapter 7. What you need to recover
Chapter 8. The panic cycle.
Chapter 9. The four kinds of symptoms, and how to deal with each
Chapter 10. Breaking the panic cycle (exposure)
Chapter 11. Discussion of coping techniques (their double edged nature)

PART III: ON ACCEPTANCE
Chapter 12. What acceptance means. Why it needs to guide and color your entire effort.
Chapter 13. Secrecy and self disclosure
Chapter 14. Anger
Chapter 15. Self Talk: the heckler
Chapter 16. Dealing with the issues of "Why?", "Why me?", and the "root cause".

PART IV: COPING TECHNIQUES/DOING IT
Chapter 17. Breathing
Chapter 18. A five step process for panic - AWARE
Chapter 19. The actions stage of AWARE
Chapter 20. The Panic Diary
Chapter 21. Relaxation techniques
Chapter 22. Self Talk: Working with The heckler
Chapter 23. Exposure

PART V: ANTICIPATORY WORRY
PART VI: PITFALLS
PART VII: SUMMARY, GUIDING RULES
PART VIII: IF YOU NEED MORE

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About the Author

David A. Carbonell, Ph.D., is the Director of the Anxiety Treatment Center, a group of psychologists specializing in anxiety disorders. Dr. Carbonell received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from DePaul University and is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Anxiety Disorders Association of America, and the International Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy. He divides his time between offices in Chicago and New York.