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Title: Understanding Obsessions and Compulsions
A self-help manual
Price: £7.99
ISBN Number: 0 85969 652 9
Price: £7.99 (Paperback), 138 Pages
Author: Dr Frank Tallis
About the Author:
Dr Frank Tallis is a clinical psychologist and writer. He has held lecturing posts in clinical psychology and neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London. He is one of the country's leading authorities on obsessional states and played a key role in setting up Obsessive Action - a charity for people suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder and their families.
In 1999 he received a Writers' Award from the Arts Council of Great Britain and in 2000 he won the New London Writer's Award (London Arts Board).
Details:
Obsessions and compulsive behaviour are gradually being recognized as a problem for many thousands of people. Many sufferers feel reluctant to seek help from their doctor, but this book breaks new ground in offering them a full self-help guide. The principles of anxiety reduction are explained and instructions to help you cope are given in easy-to-understand language. Self-help suggestions are based on established techniques, alongside the new approaches that are currently being developed. There is advice here for a range of obsessional problems, including compulsive checking, washing and hoarding, obsessional thoughts and worry and obsessional personality, and the depression they can all cause. For sufferers from this hidden problem this book offers a new life-line to a new, anxiety-free life.
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