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Overcoming Fear of Heights: How to Conquer Acrophobia and Live a Life Without Limits (Pocket Phobia)

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As a psychologist specializing in treating phobias, this book is excellent. The author is a world renowned expert in the area of anxiety and phobias. He has also found a niche market because from my knowledge, no other book exists which is written in simple terms for the general public and just covers height phobia or acrophobia. Antony's books are always a safe bet for reliability in that they are grounded in the latest cutting edge research. In other words, what he says actually works. This is very reasurring for someone with a phobia, as to face one's phobia is terrifying and something a non-phobic person can not appreciate. I previously successfully beat my phobia of medical procedures and it is such a freeing experience. If you're considering dealing with your height phobia then I highly recommend this book. Speaking both from experience and as a professional, I can say that the avoidance is much more painful than actually facing your phobia. Good luck.

Anthony Gunn, psychologist and author of Fear Is Power: Turn Your Fears Into Success

The book is well written and avoids most of the usual fillers that make the book longer, more expensive and most importantly tedious. The book is actually quite short (and indeed it could be even shorter)but it is useful in giving you a better understanding of what fear of heights is and very sensible, if not earth shattering, suggestions on how to address it. You get the impression though the treatment is simply: confront your fears directly. I would have liked a more extensive discussion of the possibility that fear of heights is caused by a dysfunction of the sense of balance. If that were the case, then cognitive therapy would lose much of its relevance, so you can see why therapist may not like it, but still the book should have included a discussion of the topic

This little book describes the most successful strategies used to treat phobias (acrophobia in particular) and goes on to help the reader develop a plan to use these techniques to make changes in their life. It is written so that the average person can understand it and put it to use today. If you have problems dealing with heights, BUY THIS BOOK AND USE IT!