Book Details:
Book Title: DECONSTRUCTING ANXIETY The Journey from Fear to Fulfillment by Todd E. Pressman, PhD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction (18+) (336 pages)
Genre: Self-Help/How To
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release date: January 2020
Tour dates: Jan 13 to Feb 7, 2020
Content Rating: PG
Category: Adult Non-Fiction (18+) (336 pages)
Genre: Self-Help/How To
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release date: January 2020
Tour dates: Jan 13 to Feb 7, 2020
Content Rating: PG
Book Description:
In
Deconstructing Anxiety, Pressman provides a new and comprehensive
understanding of fear's subtlest mechanisms. In this model, anxiety is
understood as the wellspring at the source of all problems. Tapping into
this source therefore holds the clues not only for how to escape fear,
but how to release the very causes of suffering, paving the way to a
profound sense of peace and satisfaction in life.
With strategically developed exercises, this book offers a unique, integrative approach to healing and growth, based on an understanding of how the psyche organizes itself around anxiety. It provides insights into the architecture of anxiety, introducing the dynamics of the “core fear” (one's fundamental interpretation of danger in the world) and “chief defense” (the primary strategy for protecting oneself from threat). The anxious personality is then built upon this foundation, creating a “three dimensional, multi-sensory hologram” within which one can feel trapped and helpless.
Replete with processes that bring the theoretical background into technicolor, Deconstructing Anxiety provides a clear roadmap to resolving this human dilemma, paving the way to an ultimate and transcendent freedom. Therapists and laypeople alike will find this book essential in helping design a life of meaning, purpose and enduring fulfillment.
With strategically developed exercises, this book offers a unique, integrative approach to healing and growth, based on an understanding of how the psyche organizes itself around anxiety. It provides insights into the architecture of anxiety, introducing the dynamics of the “core fear” (one's fundamental interpretation of danger in the world) and “chief defense” (the primary strategy for protecting oneself from threat). The anxious personality is then built upon this foundation, creating a “three dimensional, multi-sensory hologram” within which one can feel trapped and helpless.
Replete with processes that bring the theoretical background into technicolor, Deconstructing Anxiety provides a clear roadmap to resolving this human dilemma, paving the way to an ultimate and transcendent freedom. Therapists and laypeople alike will find this book essential in helping design a life of meaning, purpose and enduring fulfillment.
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About the Author:
TODD
E. PRESSMAN, Ph.D., is a psychologist dedicated to helping people
design lives of fulfillment. He is the founder and director of Logos
Wellness Center and Pressman and Associates Life Counseling Center. An
international speaker and seminar leader, he has presented at the Omega
Institute, the New York Open Center, and numerous professional
conferences, including the prestigious Council Grove Conference,
sponsored by the Menninger Foundation. He has written dozens of
articles, educational programs, and two highly acclaimed books, Radical
Joy: Awakening Your Potential for True Fulfillment and The Bicycle
Repair Shop: A True Story of Recovery from Multiple Personality
Disorder. He earned his doctorate in psychology from the Saybrook
Institute and an undergraduate degree from the University of
Pennsylvania, has studied under renowned leaders in the Consciousness
movement and Gestalt therapy, and has traveled around the world to study
the great Wisdom traditions, from Zen Buddhism to fire-walking
ceremonies, providing a cross-cultural perspective of the extraordinary
capacities of the mind and spirit. He makes his home in Philadelphia.
