
Can a short behavioural boot camp really grind anxiety to dust?
It’s a bumpy ride and won’t probe the origins of past trauma. But intensive CBT can reduce debilitating anxiety in days
by Elizabeth Svoboda
Elizabeth Svoboda writes on topics from creationist biology classes in Galápagos schools to the connections between suffering and selflessness. She is the author of What Makes a Hero? (2013) and, for children, The Life Heroic: How to Unleash Your Most Amazing Self (2019). She lives in San Jose, California.