Five Minute Phobia Cure: Dr. Callahan's Treatment for Fears, Phobias and Self-Sabotage [Hardcover]

Ph.D. Roger J. Callahan (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 168 pages
• Publisher: Enterprise Publishing, Inc.; 1st edition (February 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0913864897
• ISBN-13: 978-0913864890
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 4.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #247,602 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Roger J. Callahan, PhD

Founder and developer of the Callahan Techniques(R) Thought Field Therapy, Roger J. Callahan, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist. A graduate of the University of Michigan, he received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Syracuse University. Dr. Callahan is author of It Can Happen to You: The Practical Guide to Romantic Love (a Book-of-the-Month Club selection), The Callahan Anxiety Pictures (a projective test to measure anxiety), the Five Minute Phobia Cure (published in USA - Enterprise, France & Germany), The Anxiety Addiction Connection (published in USA, France & Germany), The Rapid Treatment of Panic, Agoraphobia and Anxiety, and Why Do I Eat When I'm Not Hungry? (Doubleday and Avon), Stop the Nightmares of Trauma (Professional Press, USA and VAK in Germany), with Forward by Jack Canfield, co-author Chicken Soup for Soul(R) Series, and the newly released Tapping the Healer Within (Contemporary, McGraw-Hill). This latest book has been translated and is available in the United Kingdom, Japan, Korea, Chinese, French and soon to be Taiwan and Norway.


Past President of the American Academy of Psychologists in Marital and Family Therapy and the Michigan Society of School Psychologists, Dr. Callahan has taught at the University of Michigan and Syracuse University. He was an Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University, a Research and Clinical Psychologists at Michigan's Wayne County Training School, and he is a current Fellow of the American Academy of Psychotherapists Treating Addiction. Dr. Callahan has had private psychotherapy practices in Detroit, New York, Los Angeles, Indian Wells, and La Quinta, California.

Dr. Callahan has demonstrated the Callahan Techniques(R) Thought Field Therapy on Radio and Television shows all over the country including Good Morning America, Cable Network News(CNN) and Evening Magazine, Regis Philbin, Tom Snyder, LEEZA, Jenny Jones, and Regis and Kelly as well as many others. Phil Donahue devoted an entire program to Dr. Callahan and his work on "amouraphobia".

Currently licensed in New York and California, Dr. Callahan heads the Thought Field Therapy Training Center in La Quinta, California (a Palm Springs community). The TFT Training Center conducts trainings in Callahan Techniques(R) TFT and publishes a quarterly newsletter, The Thought Field. Dr. Callahan is Chairman of the Board for the professional organization Association for Thought Field Therapy

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Much better than "Tapping the Healer Within", May 22, 2008

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ReadNReVu - See all my reviews

I wish this book were back in print again. It is better than "Tapping the Healer Within", in that it is written in a much more clear and concise manner (although he does wander a bit and get repetitive at times). He discusses "fear of success" in some detail, and what he thinks it really consists of. There is a shortcut guide in the back for using the method, with pictures.

This is the same as "The Five-Minute Phobia Cure" with an extra chapter addressing Public Speaking and Cold-Calling specifically, and some minor re-working of some of the chapters.

"Five-Minute" also has the shortcut guide. The list of phobias in the book is interesting, and he suggests the same treatment for all of them.

Well worth borrowing from your local library, or getting through interlibrary loan, especially if you found "Tapping" difficult to wade through--I did. This book was much easier to understand. I do, however, think the used prices are 'way on the high side.

Some authors with later books just rehash the same (in this case good) concept over and over, without adding anything significant. This earlier book is better.

4.5 stars.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome lifechanging technique!, May 27, 2010

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Sharon Davis "Sharon Michelle" (Texas) - See all my reviews
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Dr. Callahan has other books in which he also outlines the technique given in this book. But, in this book, the technique is fully given and in more detail and easier to understand. With the info he gives you, anyone can do this with great results even just reading along out of the book as you go. If you are interested in this type of work, this book is a classic! It really does work and releases phobias immediately in just a 20 minute session. This technique changed the whole direction of my life by instantly removing phobias that were holding me back from what I needed to do. [...]

1.0 out of 5 stars Never Received, August 20, 2011

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The company this was ordered from (via Amazon) sent me the wrong book. They have issued me a refund for the incorrect book. However, I requested that they send me the correct book that I originally ordered along with a bill, and this has not yet been accomplished. So, I have never received "Five Minute Phobia Cure".