If you or a loved one suffers from panic attacks, this book offers help. The only text to provide both the doctor s and patient s point of view, 100 Questions & Answers About Panic Disorder, Second Edition gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about the causes and treatment of panic disorder, as well as advice on coping with panic attacks, sources of support, and much more. Written by Carol W. Berman, MD, a prominent psychiatrist specializing in the treatment of panic disorder, with commentary from a patient, this book is an invaluable resource for understanding and coping with the medical, psychological, and emotional turmoil of this frightening and often debilitating condition.
Carol W. Berman grew up in Los Angeles and studied at the University of California at Berkeley as an undergraduate. She moved to New York and attended NYU Medical School. Her residency in psychiatry was spent at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital. She returned to NYU for a research fellowship, where she remains as a clinical instructor in psychiatry. She is also in private practice in New York City.
When she is not writing or treating patients, she paints in acrylics, oils or watercolors.
Dr. Berman wrote a monthly column for CNS News called 'Practical Psychiatry' from 1999-2007. Several of her short stories have been published in literary magazines. She is on the editorial board of The Bellevue Literary Review. Her first play, UNDER THE DRAGON, was produced by The Workshop at The Neighborhood Playhouse in 2002. Her second play, SUNSHINE SALLY, was produced in 2007. Her third play, PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT, made a debut in 2009.
100 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT PANIC DISORDER is her non-fiction book for the public published by Jones and Bartlett in 2005. She is also the author of PERSONALITY DISORDERS, published by Lippincott in 2009.
