Phobia A Comprehensive Summary of Modern Treatments

by Robert L. DuPont

This book contains the major papers presented at the Washington Phobia Conference. It is the first time that the general public and interested health professionals have had access to the new information about the treatment of phobias written by the pioneers in this field. This book should prove useful to professionals interested in more effective treatment of phobic people, and to phobic people themselves who are interested in learning about the disorder and about treatments for phobias.

252 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1982

About the author

Robert L. DuPont, MD was the first Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the second White House Drug Chief. He then became the founding President of the Institute for Behavior and Health, Inc., a non-profit drug abuse research and policy organization and also joined the faculty of the Georgetown University School of Medicine as Clinical Professor of Psychiatry. A graduate of Emory University, he received an MD degree from the Harvard Medical School and completed his psychiatric training at Harvard and the National Institutes of Health. He has been a practicing psychiatrist for more than fifty years.

His most recent contribution is Chemical Slavery: Understanding Addiction and Stopping the Drug Epidemic