Contents

• Turning anxiety on its head: an overview
• Symptoms and their significance
• The cognitive model of threat reaction
• Cognitive structures and anxiogenic rules
• Vulnerability: the core of anxiety disorders
• Generalized anxiety disorder and panic disorder
• Simple phobias
• The agoraphobic syndrome
• The evaluation anxieties
• Principles of cognitive therapy
• Strategies and techniques for cognitive restructuring
• Modifying imagery
• Modifying the affective component
• Modifying the behavorial component
• Restructuring a patient’s assumptions and major issues