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Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts: A Cbt-Based Guide to Getting Over Frightening, Obsessive, or Disturbing Thoughts Paperback - 2017

by Sally M. Winston; Martin N. Seif

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This seller has earned a 4.29 of 5 Stars rating from internet customers.
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Readers largely praise this as an accessible, compassionate, CBT?informed primer on understanding and handling unwanted intrusive thoughts. Many say it normalizes frightening thoughts, reduces anxiety, and offers simple, practical exercises that can complement therapy—some even calling it life?changing. They highlight its clear organization, relatable examples, and minimal jargon. Criticisms note repetition, a sometimes condescending tone, limited depth or breadth (skimming trauma- or sensation-focused issues), and advice that won’t fit everyone. Overall, it’s seen as a helpful, easy-to-use starting guide—more about intrusive thoughts themselves than a comprehensive OCD manual.

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You are not your thoughts! In this powerful book, two anxiety experts offer proven-effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) skills to help you get unstuck from disturbing thoughts, overcome the shame these thoughts can bring, and reduce your anxiety.

If you suffer from unwanted, intrusive, frightening, or even disturbing thoughts, you might worry about what these thoughts mean about you. Thoughts can seem like messages--are they trying to tell you something? But the truth is that they are just thoughts, and don't necessarily mean anything. Sane and good people have them. If you are someone who is plagued by thoughts you don't want--thoughts that scare you, or thoughts you can't tell anyone about--this book may change your life.

In this compassionate guide, you'll discover the different kinds of disturbing thoughts, myths that surround your thoughts, and how your brain has a tendency to get "stuck" in a cycle of unwanted rumination. You'll also learn why common techniques to get rid of these thoughts can backfire. And finally, you'll learn powerful cognitive behavioral skills to help you cope with and move beyond your thoughts, so you can focus on living the life you want. Your thoughts will still occur, but you will be better able to cope with them--without dread, guilt, or shame.

If you have unwanted thoughts, you should remember that you aren't alone. In fact, there are millions of people just like you--good people who have awful thoughts, gentle people with violent thoughts, and sane people with "crazy" thoughts. This book will show you how to move past your thoughts so you can reclaim your life!

This book has been selected as an Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Self-Help Book Recommendation--an honor bestowed on outstanding self-help books that are consistent with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) principles and that incorporate scientifically tested strategies for overcoming mental health difficulties. Used alone or in conjunction with therapy, our books offer powerful tools readers can use to jump-start changes in their lives.

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  • Title Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts: A Cbt-Based Guide to Getting Over Frightening, Obsessive, or Disturbing Thoughts
  • Author Sally M. Winston; Martin N. Seif
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Harbinger Publications
  • Publication date 2017-03-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • ISBN 9781626254343 / 1626254346
  • Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 1.52 cm)
  • Category Self-Help
  • Library of Congress subjects Cognition, Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
  • Dewey Decimal Code 616.852

About the author

Sally M. Winston, PsyD, founded and codirects the Anxiety and Stress Disorders Institute of Maryland in Towson, MD. She served as the first chair of the Clinical Advisory Board of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA), and received their prestigious Jerilyn Ross Clinician Advocate Award. She is a master clinician who has given sought-after workshops for therapists for decades. She is coauthor of What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Anxiety Disorders.

Martin N. Seif, PhD, cofounded the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, and was a member of its board of directors from 1977 through 1991. Seif is associate director of The Anxiety and Phobia Treatment Center at White Plains Hospital, a faculty member of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, and is board certified in cognitive behavioral psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology. He maintains a private practice in New York, NY, and Greenwich, CT, and is coauthor of What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Anxiety Disorders.


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