Diagonally-Parked in a Parallel Universe: Working Through Social Anxiety

by Signe A. Dayhoff

Over 20 million people in the U.S. alone feel intensely anxious in social situations - from work to their personal lives. The results of their agonizing pangs of self-consciousness are interrupted education, reduced productivity, financial dependence, and lack of satisfying social and intimate relationships. This new and improved Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe 2nd Ed. is designed to meet the fundamental needs of social phobics. Written with humor by a psychologist and ex-social phobic, this book is based upon years of interviews with sufferers and clinical researchers. It provides systematic and clinically-proven methods for successfully coping with both social anxiety and related life problems. It is the insider s scoop and life-strategy approach to social phobics, the shy, self-conscious, and introverted, for alleviating their pain, achieving their many goals, and effectively working toward their potential in all aspects of their lives. This new and improved edition has even more step-by-step exercises, assignments, tips, tools, summaries, and online and offline resources, making it comprehensive and especially useful and user-friendly.

Genres: Psychology, Self Help, Nonfiction, Social

408 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[Lisa Fogel]

a nice book on social anxiety. the book is ok but spends most of the words on describing what this is an how is appears rather than the treatment.