The Body-Based Obsessions Workbook

Jon Hershfield, MFT, is the director of The OCD and Anxiety Center of Greater Baltimore in Hunt Valley, MD. He specializes in the mindfulness-based and cognitive behavioral treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder and is licensed in the states of Maryland, Virginia, and California. Jon is coauthor of The Mindfulness Workbook for OCD and author of When a Family Member Has OCD. He is a frequent presenter at the annual conferences of both the International OCD Foundation and the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, and a professional contributor to multiple online OCD-related support groups and blogs.

Schiffer explores, with deep compassion, anxieties that rest on a vigilant and hyper-responsible relationship to body and brain. With written exercises to slow down and observe how you think and behave, she helps you to stop mental and physical maneuvers that backfire and reinforce anxiety. She explains how you got so tied up. There are excellent sections on preoccupations about the mind, sanity and mood, and on torturous sensorimotor hyperawareness.