The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety: A Guide to Breaking Free From Anxiety, Phobias, and Worry Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

About Georg H. EifertJohn P. Forsyth

John P. Forsyth PhD is a scientist writer and licensed clinical psychologist in upstate New York. He has traveled the world giving talks and workshops to the public and professionals about the benefits of mindful acceptance kindness and compassion and how to live a valued life using a new approach to psychological health and wellness called acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). He is associate professor of psychology director of the doctoral training program in clinical psychology and director of the Anxiety Disorders Research Program at the University at Albany State University of New York. He has published many articles about how excessive struggle with unpleasant thoughts and emotions feeds human suffering and what mindfulness and acceptance can offer as a solution. He is coauthor of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Anxiety Disorders ACT on Life Not on Anger and The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety. His work has helped foster growing international interest in acceptance and mindfulness approaches in psychology mental health care medicine and society.Georg H. Eifert PhD was ranked among the top thirty researchers in behavior analysis and therapy in the 1990s and has authored over 100 publications on psychological causes and treatments of anxiety and other emotional disorders. He is clinical fellow of the Behavior Therapy and Research Society a member of numerous national and international psychological associations and serves on several editorial boards of leading clinical psychology journals. He is also a licensed clinical psychologist. He is coauthor of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Anxiety Disorders and ACT on Life Not on Anger.