Publisher's Synopsis
This volume presents the psychological concepts on the subjects of panic attacks and overcoming fear in simplified language. It provides help for a very little understood but highly disruptive condition.;The book explains that panic is a normal human reaction to sudden fear, usually associated with an imminent physical threat to one's life. With a panic attack, there appears to be no immediate cause for the fear, leaving the sufferer to conclude that he or she is experiencing a physical illness. The author's researches, however, show that in almost all cases of panic attack, the sufferer has been through a period of intense stress which proves to be the psychological cause.;In the final part of the book, Dr Baker spells out a practical programme, tried and tested with many patients, to enable sufferers to conquer panic attacks, and the fears associated with them. He concludes with some reflections on his own experience of panic attacks and the effectiveness of his methods, and the place of his Christian faith in this.
