Contents

Title Page

Copyright

Introduction

 

Part One: PSYCHOLOGY

 

CHAPTER 1: The Breakthrough in Flight Phobia Treatment

CHAPTER 2: Ending Your Fear of Flying

CHAPTER 3: Manual Regulation—The 5-4-3-2-1 Exercise

CHAPTER 4: Automatic Regulation—Its Discovery

CHAPTER 5: How Your Inner CEO Regulates Stress Hormones

CHAPTER 6: Understanding Executive Function

CHAPTER 7: Onset

CHAPTER 8: Going into Your Own Movie

CHAPTER 9: Staying Out of Your Own Movie in Turbulence

CHAPTER 10: Rumination

CHAPTER 11: Executive Function Overload

CHAPTER 12: Regulating Anxiety with the Strengthening Exercise

CHAPTER 13: Stopping Anxiety and Panic in Everyday Situations

CHAPTER 14: Erasure Exercise

CHAPTER 15: The Psychological Foundations for Emotional Regulation

CHAPTER 16: Understanding Arousal

 

Part Two: AVIATION

 

CHAPTER 17: How Flying Works

CHAPTER 18: Weather

CHAPTER 19: Turbulence

CHAPTER 20: A Complete Flight

 

Part Three: STRATEGY

 

CHAPTER 21: Planning and Starting Your Flight

CHAPTER 22: Anticipatory Anxiety

CHAPTER 23: Ten Supportive Strategies

 

Acknowledgments

Appendix A: Flight Checklist

Appendix B: Sample Letters

Glossary of Terms

References

About the Author

Index