The Dutiful Worrier

“The Dutiful Worrier is an excellent self-help book. It provides extremely helpful strategies for leading a less anxious and more fulfilling life. Lucid and cleverly organized into sections that make it easy to read and understand, it draws on the thoughts and findings of outstanding clinicians and scholars. I enthusiastically endorse and recommend The Dutiful Worrier.“

—Arnold A. Lazarus, PhD, ABPP, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Clinical Psychology at Rutgers University and executive director of The Lazarus Institute in Skillman, NJ

“Worry, no matter how good the reason, is not healthy. As Albert Ellis stated, ‘Worry is itself one of the most painful conditions.’ Elliot Cohen shows how to use a four-step process to identify, refute, replace, and monitor well-meaning worry. I recommend you follow this four-step program and learn to concentrate on actual troubles and not the imaginary ones.”

—Jon Carlson, PsyD, EdD, Distinguished Professor in psychology and counseling at Governors State University in University Park, IL

“A unique book that gets at the meta-cognition underlying people’s compulsive worry: the belief that they must keep obsessing about future possibilities so that somehow in their ruminating despair they will discover the perfect solution. In addition, Cohen’s book provides one of the clearest and most succinct demonstrations I’ve ever seen of the four-step process for identifying and changing irrational beliefs—a great general introduction to CBT.”

--Janet L. Wolfe, PhD, former executive editor of the Albert Ellis Institute

“If you are tired of sweating things that never happen, this highly informative book is for you. Use the exceptional ideas and exercises within to free yourself from worry and to unleash a happier, more productive you. This may be the last book you’ll need on defeating worry.”

—William J. Knaus, EdD, author of The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Anxiety and End Procrastination Now