Anxiety at 35,000 Feet

by Bor, Robert; Kahr, Brett (CON); Zuckerman, Jane N.

• ISBN13: 9781855759657
• ISBN10: 1855759659
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-01
• Publisher: KARNAC BOOKS

Summary

Fear of flying is a perennial problem among both passengers and airline crews and recent terrorist attacks have heightened the levels of anxiety when boarding a plane. In this volume, one of Britain's leading aviation psychologists, Robert Bor, examines passenger behaviour when faced with anxiety towards flying; the mental health of pilots; and the possible treatments for people suffering from fear of flying. The main aim of Anxiety at 35,000 Feet is to introduce basic concepts of clinical aviation psychology, with a primary emphasis on psychotherapeutic and clinical psychological issues. "It is reasonable to assume that every psychotherapeutic encounter has become affected by recent world events in a number of different ways. For many people, the terrorist attacks have aroused previously palpable feelings of insecurity and unsafety that might have emerged in therapeutic work in other ways." -- Robert Bor, from the Introduction

Author Biography

Robert Bor is a clinical, counselling and health psychologist, as well as a family therapist

Table of Contents

SERIES FOREWORD	vii
ABOUT THE AUTHORS	xiii
FOREWORD by Jane N. Zuckerman	xv
1 Towards the development of clinical aerospace psychology	1	(6)
2 Understanding passenger behaviour	7	(32)
3 The mental health of pilots	39	(26)
4 The psychodynamics of travel phobia: a contribution to clinical aerospace psychology
Brett Kahr	65	(6)
5 Clinical aerospace psychology in the future: a dialogue
Robert Bor in conversation with Brett Kahr	71	(24)
REFERENCES	95	(8)
INDEX	103