Avoidance
Narcissistic Thinking in an Avoidance Vortex
“Tip of The Month Club” www.socialanxiety.com Clinical Insight After 35-Plus Years Treating Avoidant Personality Disorder: Social Anxiety Articles I believe I have interacted with more individuals with avoidant personalities than anyone in the world! I’m neither bragging nor complaining. It’s just a fact: It’s my job. As a psychotherapist with more than 35 years’ […]
Free Seminar on Blushing and Performance Anxiety
Jonathan Berent and a recovered patient discuss the methodology for healing. On the verge of a having a physician perform a sympathectomy, “Jim” gained control over his blushing, obsessive compulsive challenges, and performance anxiety.
Listen to Jonathan Berent: WFAN Radio August 24, 2012: New York’s #1 Sports Station – “Performance & Social Anxiety”
For your education and entertainment, Jonathan discusses sports, public speaking and performance anxiety, angry loners, selective mutism, and more!
Intimacy Phobia Resolved – “I Had Been Celibate My Whole Life.”
“Mike” a corporate vice president describes his long term suffering; “I never had the possibility of finding a girlfriend. I was petrifies about finding a real relationship. Now I can let loose and socialize”. This interview includes dramatic insight into the cognitive distortions and self-esteem challenge that drive intimacy anxiety and phobia.
Involuntary Virginity & Intimacy Anxiety Resolved
“Steve” is a 37 yr. old businessman and part time stand- up comedian. He describes his long term struggle; “I didn’t like being touched. Holding hands would cause panic. I avoided dating. I was caught in an endless loop of obsessing about the next step. I wasn’t in the moment”.
School Phobia, Avoidant Personality, Learning Disability: an Orthodox Jewish Perspective – From School Refusal to a Graduate Degree
With special insight into the avoidance-dependence dynamics of a close knit and loving family, “David” describes his struggle with learning disabilities, social anxiety, phobic avoidance, and eventual success. David’s healing journey evolved from hiding in his dorm room in college; not going to classes, alone and depressed, and avoiding all social interaction to obtaining an […]
20 Yr. Old Emerges From Avoidance, Depression, & “Primitive” Functioning – Treatment Resistance Resolved
Numerous variables can enable primitive functioning, which is defined as “spending the minimal amount of energy required to sustain a baseline lifestyle”. “Baseline” refers to substantially substandard emotional growth and development. In this case the variables include learning challenges which drove performance anxiety, family distress and divorce, fragmented parenting, and an overall compulsion on the […]
School Phobia, Social Phobia, Social Isolation, and Depression “Cured” – From School Refusal to “Social Butterfly”
The last thing 16 yr. old “Arthur” wanted was to go to therapy when he was in the midst of his school phobia. This social anxiety-driven problem had persisted since elementary school. He spent his days depressed; in his room playing computer baseball. His only friend was his cousin. His parents “didn’t know what to […]
Self-Help and Treatment Options
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- Work Makes Me Nervous
- Comprehensive Self-Therapy Audio Program
- Public Speaking Anxiety Self-Therapy Audio Program
- “Warm Hands Cool Face” A Self-Help Clinical Program for Blushing Anxiety & Erythrophobia
- The Berent Method: High Performance Therapy for Social-Anxiety
- Telephone/skype therapy available worldwide
- Selective Mutism Seminar Audio CD/MP3 Program
- Self-Help Program for Parents of Children with Selective Mutism
- The Sociability Questionnaire
- Tip of the Month Club
- Social Therapy and The Learning Disabled
- Free Parent Addiction Survey
