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Overcome your fear of flying
It’s the time of year when many Brits are thinking about jetting off on their summer holidays to far-flung, sunnier climes. However, for an estimated 20% of the population, the thought of boarding a plane fills them with dread and as many as 5% will never fly as a direct result of their fear. Overcome Your Fear of Flying is a major new self-help book, written by two psychologists and a pilot, which provides effective skills and
techniques for sufferers to use to help reduce the anxiety commonly associated with flying.

Fear of flying is a surprisingly common problem. For some, flying is unpleasant but manageable, while for others it is an incapacitating fear. There may be serious and potentially disastrous social, financial and professional consequences for anxious flyers - a fear of flying can spoil holidays, damage careers and put relationships under stress. However, it is one of the most treatable psychological problems which almost everyone should be able to overcome.

Co-author of Overcome Your Fear of Flying, Professor Robert Bor, explains, “Our collective experience with people who have a fear of flying shows that, although some books provide useful information about flight safety, they fail to explain the full range of psychological techniques which are known to help overcome fear and anxiety. Helping sufferers to master thesetechniques is the main focus of the book; it brings together the latest, proven methods for overcoming a fear of flying and helps the reader select and implement the techniques most likely to help them overcome their fear. We also outline the way in which a fear of flying can become a problem in the first place and how different people are affected.”

Interspersed with case studies demonstrating how a fear of flying can manifest itself in various different ways, Overcome Your Fear of Flying approaches treatment of the problem differently from many others. It will not baffle readers with statistics about flight safety, nor will it ‘argue’ with the sufferer’s fears. The book facilitates a tailored approach to self-help, built on a solid foundation of clinical practice and research. The aim is to motivate and empower readers to confront and overcome the different elements that characterise their fear of flying. Tatiana Rokou - Friday, May 15, 2009