Healing The Anxiety Diseases

by Thomas L. Leaman MD

Overview

An accessible overview of the six kinds of anxiety diseases and what can be done to cure them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738208732
Publisher:	Hachette Books
Publication date:	12/22/2002
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile:	1070L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1.	Anxiety Disease: There Is Good News	1
Chapter 2.	Three Faces of Anxiety Disease	15
Chapter 3.	Anxiety Is the Spouse of Life: Normal Anxiety and Anxiety Diseases	29
Chapter 4.	Could It Be My Nerves? The Meaning and Function of Symptoms	43
Chapter 5.	Boogums, Snorklewackers, and Tigers	59
Chapter 6.	When the Body Speaks: Symptoms of the Skin, Respiratory, and Gastrointestinal Systems	77
Chapter 7.	When the Body Groans: Symptoms of the Musculoskeletal, Cardiovascular, Endocrine, Blood, Urinary, and Reproductive Systems	95
Chapter 8.	Know Your Own Anxiety: The Six Types of Anxiety Disease	117
Chapter 9.	Double Trouble	141
Chapter 10.	Why Me?	165
Chapter 11.	What Do I Do Now?	185
Chapter 12.	Help without Medication	203
Chapter 13.	Medications that Heal	223
Chapter 14.	"There's No Place Like Home"	245
Chapter 15.	Keeping the Snorklewackers in the Closet	261
	Further Reading	281
	Notes	283
	Index	285

Editorial Reviews

Outstanding, long overdue... This is the most complete, best organized, most easily understood single source on the subject.

Edward J. Kowalewski

Dr. Leaman (family medicine, Pennsylvania State U.) presents anxiety as a real disease with identifiable biologic and genetic causes as well as contributing social and environmental factors. He writes for the lay audience (although health care providers could benefit from the information) and discusses how to get help. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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