Category: Mental Health Books

Book: The Anxiety Toolkit

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Book Title: The Anxiety Toolkit: Strategies for Managing your Anxiety so you can Get on with Your Life.

Author(s): Dr. Alice Boyes.

Year: 2015.

Edition: First.

Publisher: Piatkus.

Synopsis:

Do you overthink before taking action? Are you prone to making negative predictions? Do you worry about the worst that could happen? Do you take negative feedback very hard? Are you self-critical? Does anything less than perfect performance feel like failure?

If any of these issues resonate with you, you’re probably suffering from some degree of anxiety, and you are not alone. The good news: while reducing your anxiety level to zero is not possible or useful (anxiety can actually be helpful!), you can learn to successfully manage symptoms – such as excessive rumination, hesitation, fear of criticism and paralysing perfection.

In The Anxiety Toolkit, Dr Alice Boyes translates powerful, evidence-based tools used in therapy clinics into tips and tricks you can employ in everyday life. Whether you have an anxiety disorder, or are just anxiety-prone by nature, you will discover how anxiety works, strategies to help you cope with common anxiety ‘stuck’ points and a confidence that – anxious or not – you have all the tools you need to succeed in life and work.

Book: The Anxiety Solution

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Book Title: The Anxiety Solution: A Quieter Mind, A Calmer You.

Author(s): Chloe Bortheridge.

Year: 2017.

Edition: First.

Publisher: Michael Joseph.

Synopsis:

This is a book for anyone experiencing anxiety – at home, in school or at work, in social situations or on their own – one that will benefit everyone from worried mums to stressed teens.

The Anxiety Solution is a simple and inspiring guide to reducing anxiety from former sufferer and qualified clinical hypnotherapist, and host of The Calmer You podcast, Chloe Brotheridge.

Chloe will help you understand why we feel anxious and will equip you with techniques to help manage the symptoms and start living a happier, more confident life. Based on the latest scientific research and her unique programme which has already helped hundreds of clients, The Anxiety Solution will show you how to regain control of your life.

‘I know what it’s like to be stuck in a cycle of anxiety. I used to feel as though fear and worry were a permanent part of who I was . . . but I’m here to tell you that it doesn’t have to be this way. The truth is, your natural state is one of calmness and confidence – and I’m going to teach you how to get there.’

If you want to spend less time worrying, this book is the solution for you. You’ll be surprised how quickly you can be back in control and able to enjoy your life once again.

Book: Abnormal Psychology in a Changing World

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Book Title: Abnormal Psychology in a Changing World.

Author(s): Jeffery S. Nevid, Spencer A. Rathus, and Beverly Greene.

Year: 2018.

Edition: Tenth.

Publisher: Pearson Education.

Synopsis:

Abnormal Psychology in a Changing World makes complex abnormal psychology concepts accessible and stimulating to students.

Authors Jeffrey Nevid, Spencer Rathus, and Beverly Greene present illustrative case examples drawn from their own clinical and teaching experiences, leading students to recognise the human dimension of the study of abnormal psychology.

Updated to reflect the latest advancements in the field, the Tenth Edition highlights the ways in which personal technology is changing the study of abnormal psychology via the new Abnormal Psychology in the Digital Age feature.

Book: A Beautiful Mind

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Book Title: A Beautiful Mind.

Original Title: A Beautiful Mind: a Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994.

Author: Sylvia Nasar.

Year: 1998.

Publisher: Simon & Schuster.

Synopsis:

A Beautiful Mind (1998) is a biography of Nobel Prize-winning economist and mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. by Sylvia Nasar, professor of journalism at Columbia University.

An unauthorised work, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1998 and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in biography.

It inspired the 2001 film by the same name.

Starting with his childhood, the book covers Nash’s years at Princeton and MIT, his work for the RAND Corporation, his family and his struggle with schizophrenia.

Although Nasar notes that Nash did not consider himself a homosexual, she describes his arrest for indecent exposure and firing from RAND amid the suspicion that he was, then considered grounds for revoking one’s security clearance.

The book ends with Nash being awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994.

The book is a detailed description of many aspects of Nash’s life, including the nature of his mathematical genius, and a close examination of his personality and motivations.

Book: 30 Days 30 Ways To Overcome Depression

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Book Title: 30 Days 30 Ways to Overcome Depression

Author: Bev Aisbett.

Year: 2019.

Publisher: HarperCollins, London, UK.

Synopsis:

From bestselling author Bev Aisbett comes a proven, practical and simple workbook to help people manage their depression, with a month’s worth of daily strategies and exercises for work and for home.

When you’re suffering from depression, sometimes it’s as much as you can do to get out of bed, let alone read a book. But this just isn’t any other book. This is a practical day-by-day workbook, with clear, simple daily building blocks and exercises designed to help pull you out of the inertia of depression. It’s a highly approachable, concise and above all practical way to help manage depression.

Featuring all-new material from experienced counsellor and bestselling author of the self-help classics Living with IT and Taming the Black Dog, Bev Aisbett has based this book on many of the exercises she has been teaching and writing about for the past twenty years to help people manage their depression.

Book: Lost Connections

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Book Title: Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions.

Author: Johann Hari.

Year: 2018.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Circus, 50 Bedford Square, London, UK.

Synopsis:

A radically new way of thinking about mental health. What really causes depression and anxiety – and how can we really solve them? Award-winning journalist Johann Hari suffered from depression since he was a child and started taking anti-depressants when he was a teenager. He was told that his problems were caused by a chemical imbalance in his brain. As an adult, trained in the social sciences, he began to investigate whether this was true – and he learned that almost everything we have been told about depression and anxiety is wrong.

Across the world, Hari found social scientists who were uncovering evidence that depression and anxiety are largely caused by key problems with the way we live today. Hari’s journey took him from a mind-blowing series of experiments in Baltimore, to an Amish community in Indiana, to an uprising in Berlin. Once he had uncovered nine real causes of depression and anxiety, they led him to scientists who are discovering seven very different solutions – ones that work.