Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety

by Kelly G. Wilson

Steven C. Hayes’s workbook with Spencer Smith, Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (New Harbinger, 2005), is a good all-around introduction to ACT that doesn’t necessarily focus on any one kind of mental health problem. The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety: A Guide to Breaking Free from Anxiety, Phobias, and Worry Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (New Harbinger, 2008), by John P. Forsyth and Georg H. Eifert, comes at the problem of anxiety from a slightly different angle than Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong, but like this book, it’s aimed at problems with anxiety. In addition to a number of pen-and-paper exercises, The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook comes with an audio CD with some useful and interesting guided meditations. Finally, among the books written for general readers, Chad LeJeune’s The Worry Trap: How to Free Yourself from Worry and Anxiety Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (New Harbinger, 2007) is focused specifically on the condition of persistent worry known as generalized anxiety disorder. Much of what you’ve just read in this book was anticipated in our book Mindfulness for Two (New Harbinger, 2008), but in that volume, we go into greater detail about the behavior science that grounds this stuff. Mindfulness for Two is pretty readable for a professional book. If you think you want to explore the foundations of ACT a little further, we think you might want to take a look....

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