Product Description The twentieth-anniversary edition of a stress-relief classic features new techniques, diagrams, and data designed to help readers achieve a level of balance and overcome anxiety, worry, and other negative emotions. Original. 35,000 first printing. -- Review Although the sheer size of this dense workbook might cause initial hyperventilation--280 full-size sheets of text--take heart (and a deep breath!): the many self-assessment tools and calming techniques presented in this fifth edition can help overcome anxiety and promote physical and emotional well-being. First introduced in 1980, the book received praise for presenting a comprehensive look at stress, its physical manifestations, and the multiple ways it can be managed. Twenty years later, its well-organized chapters on breathing, relaxation, meditation, thought stopping, and body awareness still guide the reader through copious self-help techniques to try and, eventually, master. Other chapters, including job stress management, goal setting and time management, and assertiveness training, focus on daily scenarios people often find distressing. Lessons in identifying key elements that trigger unpleasant responses and in reacting differently to these elements are designed to defuse perceived conflicts. For this edition, coauthors Martha Davis (psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry of Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Santa Clara, CA), Elizabeth Robbins Eshelman (licensed clinical social worker with Kaiser Permanente Online), and Matthew McKay (clinical director of Haight-Ashbury Psychological Services, San Francisco, CA) have added topics on worry control, anger management, and eye-movement therapy. New diagrams and a more reader-friendly format should appeal to readers, despite a few typos and graphical mishaps. This is a valuable tool for therapists, their patients, and the stressed-at-large. --Liane Thomas From the Publisher Updated with a bold new look, this best-selling classic workbook for beating stress offers comprehensive, step-by-step directions for the most popular relaxation techniques including mindfulness meditation, progressive muscle relaxation, thought stopping, stress inoculation, autogenics, and more. From the Back Cover The Only Book on Stress Management You’ll Ever Need Ever since it’s first release in 1980, The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook has been the first choice of professionals and general readers for self-help stress management. In these pages, you’ll find simple and straightforward advice for using just about every stress management technique ever developed—quickly, easily, and with amazing results. Use the book to develop a relaxation program that’s just right for you, and you’ll join the hundreds of thousands of other calm and relaxed individuals who have benefited from this unique and powerful book. About the Author Martha Davis, Ph.D., is a psychologist in the department of psychiatry of Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Santa Clara, CA, where she practices individual, couple, and group psychotherapy. She is the coauthor of Messages, Thoughts & Feelings, and The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook. Elizabeth Robbins Eshelman, LCSW, works for the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan’s national secure members Web site, Kaiser Permanente Online. As the communities manager, she works with a dedicated group of health care professionals to coordinate and evaluate online discussions and real time chat. These online interventions promote self-care and coping and provide informational, decision-making and psychological support, much like the chapters in this book. Matthew McKay, Ph.D., is a professor at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA. He is the author and coauthor of more than twenty-five books, including The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook, Thoughts and Feelings, Messages, When Anger Hurts, Self-Esteem and The Self-Esteem Guided Journal. He received his Ph.D. in clinical