From Misery to Mastery: A Revolutionary New Treatment for Anxiety and Depression by Richard Silvestri, Jill Racine

Ph.Ds. Richard Silvestri and Jill Racine introduce us to their new book about defining and treating anxiety and depression, “From Misery to Mastery: A Revolutionary New Treatment for Anxiety and Depression”. This is a self-help guide for people suffering from mild to moderate anxiety and depression, using a multidimensional new method. This method is a combination of the well-tested and proven exposure therapy (which one of the authors helped originate) with the authors' unique system of trait and predisposition analysis, which takes the person's overall psychological makeup and inborn predilections into account, to create in effect a customized treatment for each person. This system also takes into account the three different components of anxiety, all of which must be dealt with to assure effective treatment, and includes a treatment plan for those who wish to take their recovery all the way to complete mastery—total banishment—of these troublesome conditions.
This book addresses anxiety in all its forms, including generalized anxiety, situational anxiety, multiple anxieties, very private anxieties, panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobias, PTSD, stress, worry, and fears, including response-based fears. It also addresses many forms of psychological depression, from depression due to losses (grief) to depression mixed with anxiety or anger, as well as other depression-related conditions such as grudges, regret, guilt, and procrastination.

This is a good and helpful book, written by a father and daughter team, who are both psychologists.
I enjoyed the book and found it to be well-grounded in reality. The several modes of anxiety and depression are described quite well and so are the different treatments. The authors encourage readers with mild to moderate issues to do it themselves; others with strong issues are recommended to seek guidance from a qualified professional.
The many different examples make this book quite interesting and easy to consume. With references and an index those desiring more information can educate themselves further with ease.
I award 4.8 stars to “From Misery to Mastery”. 

             Richard Silvestri, Ph.D.                                    Jillian Racine, Ph.D.

You can buy this book:
https://rdrpublishers.com/from-misery-to-mastery-a-revolutionary-new-treatment-for-anxiety-and-depression
https://www.amazon.com/from-misery-to-mastery-arevolutionary-new-treatment-for-anxiety-and-depression
https://www.goodreads.com/-from-misery-to-mastery

You can follow the authors: 
https://drjillracine.com

Tags: psychology, psychiatry, DIY
Copyright © 2020 Mark L. Schultz except for the authors’ introduction