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The Sheldon Short Guide to Worry and Anxiety

Frank Tallis

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Worry is a useful biological response to adverse circumstances, which can sometimes get out of hand. While the anxiety response primes us for action, too much becomes counterproductive. This easy-to-read manual explains how to understand and control your worry, and make the brain's warning system work for you. Topics include:

Defining worry and its mechanism

Preparing to solve your problems - skills to practise

How to solve your problems

Brainstorming and making decisions

Coping with setbacks

When the worry won't stop

Coping successfully with unavoidable problems

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Frank Tallis

Frank Tallis

Dr Frank Tallis is a writer and clinical psychologist. His non-fiction books include The Incurable Romantic, The Act of Living and Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and The Discovery of the Modern Mind, which was a book of the year in The Times. In the TLS William Boyd said 'Tallis' clear-eyed judicious analysis is the best I've read'. Tallis is also the author of the Liebermann Papers, a psychoanalytic detective series set in Freud's Vienna and adapted for television as the BBC drama Vienna Blood. He lives in London.

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