Social Anxiety Articles
Toward an Understanding of “Reservoir” Implications in the Treatment of Social Anxiety
During my career which has spanned thirty eight years, during which I have provided clinical services to literally thousands of patients of all ages with social anxiety, I have discovered that the biggest source of confusion for sufferers is understanding how ingrained the problem becomes. Adding to this confusion are marketing efforts and promises from […]
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’ […]
Obsessive Compulsive Personality as Etiology of Social & Performance Anxiety
This technical paper explains how perfectionism is the core dynamic which causes, and drives, social and performance anxiety in thousands of cases. Read Now
Integrating the Sarno Method Into Treatment for Social & Performance Anxiety
Since 1978 I have been developing an integrated therapeutic methodology to address the specific needs of social anxiety sufferers. This process has been the exact opposite of trying to fit social anxiety into the narrow confines of one already existing therapeutic modality. Approximately fifteen years ago I integrated the work of John E. Sarno into […]
Understanding The Berent Treatment Model for Social Anxiety
In 1976 fresh out of graduate school I was working as a youth worker in a community center. A colleague, with a background in special ed., suggested that we start a socialization group for teenagers with learning disabilities. I had no idea what she was talking about, but we conducted research and discovered there was […]
Social Anxiety: Misunderstood No More
This training presentation provides clarity regarding a pervasive and grossly misunderstood anxiety disorder. http://goo.gl/azW8UA
How to Control Social Anxiety Panic Attacks
Read about adrenaline control techniques that will help you control the fight or fight response and panic attacks. Combat social anxiety scenarios that activate fight or flight include public speaking, fear of being noticeably nervous as in blushing, sweating, or voice stammering, interacting with an authority figure, socializing in general and so on.
Social Anxiety vs Aspergers
Asperger syndrome is an autism spectrum disorder that is characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction. Restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests, which are often abnormally intense and focused, are present. Reading and understanding social cues is usually a challenge for the Asperger individual. A failure to develop relationships, a lack of social […]
Selective Mutism Creates Dating Challenge for High Functioning Female with Social Anxiety
“Debbie” is a 24 year old athletic blond with hundreds of young men pursuing her on a dating site. She is currently getting her Masters in Special Education. Her mother initiated treatment after Debbie experienced a stress breakdown at the beginning of graduate school. Because of the anxiety episode Debbie withdrew from school for a […]
Rip Van Winkle Syndrome: Toward a Recovery from Adult Pervasive Social Anxiety
The story of Rip Van Winkle is set in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War. In a pleasant village, at the foot of New York’s Catskill Mountains, lives kindly Rip Van Winkle, a colonial British-American villager of Dutch ancestry. Van Winkle enjoys solitary activities in the wilderness, but he is also loved […]
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