Coping with Uncertainty: 10 Simple Solutions [Paperback]

Bruce Eimer (Author), Moshe S. Torem (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2002

A clinical hypnotherapist and a psychiatrist provide ten simple solutions that help readers feel safe and stay calm when life changes or uncertain times make them feel vulnerable or anxieties start to hamper their daily activities. Offers quick and effective cognitive-behavioural techniques to help readers deal with fears that arise in their daily lives. In uncertain times, many of us start to feel more vulnerable than we'd like to feel. When personal life changes, such as job loss or financial reversals, couple with threatening headlines and terrifying news events, fears can rise to the point that we feel paralyzed, or even hesitate to take part in such common daily activities as driving on crowded freeways, flying or traveling far from home, or riding on a high-rise elevator. In this timely guide, clinical hypnotherapist and popular author Bruce Eimer joins with psychiatrist Moshe Torem to offer ten simple techniques to help readers cope with feelings of helplessness and vulnerability. By focusing on overcoming the often unconscious inhibiting beliefs that underlie fear, readers learn to assess the real risks involved in daily living, end obsessive thinking over possible outcomes or disasters, relax their mind and body, and stay flexible through uncertain times. A step-by-step approach, based on proven cognitive-behavioral principles, helps readers learn that uncertainty is temporary, build a tolerance to frustration, accept change as a given, cope with feelings of depression or anger, and begin to feel safe and confident again.

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From the Publisher

In uncertain times, when personal difficulties get coupled with terrifying news events, a feeling of debilitating dread can prevent us from engaging in activities that involve even the mildest risk. This timely guide offers ten simple techniques based on proven cognitive-behavioral principles, that will help readers cope with feelings of vulnerability and begin to feel safe and confident again. Readers learn to realistically assess risks, end obsessive thinking, relax their mind and body, and stay flexible through uncertain times.

About the Author

Bruce N. Eimer, Ph.D., A.B.P.P., is a clinical psychologist and hypnotherapist with over fifteen years of experience treating people with cognitive-behavioural and self- help strategies. He currently works with patients dealing with anxiety and trauma in private practice in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania. Moshe S. Torem, M.D., FAPA, is the medical director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine at the Akron General Health & Wellness Center in Akron, Ohio. Sylvester Johnson (foreword) is Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department.

Product Details

• Paperback: 137 pages
• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications; 1 edition (January 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572242965
• ISBN-13: 978-1572242968
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #909,518 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nothing new, but well organized, thorough, and to the point, November 30, 2002

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This review is from: Coping with Uncertainty: 10 Simple Solutions (Paperback)

If there is one thing that is for certain it is that there will always be uncertainty in our lives. In "Coping With Uncertainty: 10 Simple Solutions" the authors provide the reader with a framework for dealing with uncertainty. Often with uncertainty comes feelings of vulnerability, loss of control, depression, and fear. The ten solutions offered are 1) Accept Uncertainty as Part of Life, 2) Evaluate Your Real Risks, 3) Change Obsessive Thoughts, 4) Restore Inner Harmony, 5) Release Tension, 6) Improve Your Tolerance for Frustration, 7) Develop Healthy Self-Acceptance, 8) Learn to Forgive, 9) Connect with Others and Create Meaning, and 10) Learn to Be Flexible. As you can see they are not really ten separate solutions, but ten principles for a complete solution. Each chapter covers one of the ten solutions in detail and how to apply it in life.

Although at 137 pages it is a fairly small book compared to others of this genre it is tightly written with very little fluff. Written by professionals in the field of psychology and based on years of experience it is a recommended read for anyone having difficulty dealing with uncertainty.