Edmund J. Bourne, PH.D. is an American

United States

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 self-help author, psychologist

Psychologist

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 and researcher on anxiety

Anxiety

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, anxiety disorders and the treatment of anxiety disorders. He was the director of The Anxiety and Treatment Center in San Jose

San Jose, California

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 and Santa Rosa, California. In 1990, Edmund Bourne published The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook, a self-help

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 book that won the Benjamin Franklin

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 Book Award for Excellence in Psychology. He lives and practices in Florida and California

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Published works

• Global Shift: How a New Worldview Is Transforming Humanity
• Natural Relief for Anxiety
• Beyond Anxiety and Phobia
• Coping with Anxiety
• The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook
• Healing Fear: New Approaches to Overcoming Anxiety