Psychosomatics: How the Brain Invents Diseases. 10 Steps to Overcoming Anxiety and Stress. CBT Workbook

Your body may react to stress with various sensations that are often mistaken for symptoms of illness. This workbook, based on CBT principles, will help you understand this connection and gently restore harmony between mental and physical states. No more endless examinations, searching for symptoms online, and uncontrolled fears for your health!
Experienced psychotherapist and bestselling author in psychology Ilya Kachai offers a ready-made solution: you will learn how anxious thoughts turn into real pain, spasms, and other symptoms, and most importantly – you will get simple yet effective techniques to stop this process. Practical assignments will help reprogram your body's reactions, reduce stress levels, and finally, you will stop being a hostage of imaginary diagnoses, take control of your body and thoughts, and start living in harmony – without pills and endless visits to doctors.

Ilya Kachai – PhD in Philosophy, clinical psychologist, certified cognitive-behavioral and rational-emotive-behavioral therapist, associate professor at the Department of Philosophy of Siberian Federal University, active member and supervisor of the Association of Specialists in Rational-Emotive-Behavioral Therapy, author of scientific articles, textbooks, monographs, and popular science books on philosophy, psychology, and psychotherapy.