Women and Anxiety: A Step-by-Step Program for Managing Anxiety and Depression is a "self-help guide for recovery of your well-being," designed to empower you to take control "in a new, hopeful way, rather than with old, hurtful patterns." This book aims to help you understand the basis of your troublesome feelings and become less enraged, guilt ridden, and pessimistic by using the author"s 20-step program. Everyone suffers from anxiety, says author DeRosis, a psychiatrist specializing in women"s mental health. It becomes a problem when it is excessive and causes suffering and/or incapacitation. DeRosis teaches you to see anxiety as a signal of inner conflict that you can resolve, and to harness your restless energy productively. She examines anxiety"s underlying emotions, such as anger, perfectionist expectations, marital dissatisfaction, and role or age transitions. The 20-step program helps you expose the conflicts that create anxiety, and then change features of your life. You deal with only one "trouble point" at a time, so that you can clarify and resolve an issue, make a change, and create a sense of accomplishment. Case studies illustrate how several women worked through these steps, so you can follow their examples. --Joan Price