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J Child Fam Stud (2006) 15:669670 DOI 10.1007/s10826-006-9055-8BOOK REVIEWThe University of Wisconsin Press, 2004 Angela D. AdkinsPublished online: 20 June 2006C Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2006Robert Rand delivers an easy to read, entertaining, and engaging memoir about his development of and eventual control over panic disorder. Rand is a perfectionist who has experienced multiple successes as a student, a scholar and nally as the senior editor for National Public Radios All Things Considered; however, he nds that he lacks self-condence. Combining cognitive therapy with his love of music and his diligence in a new context to learn social dance, Rand successfully controls his panic attacks.In Chapter 1, Rand introduces the reader to the Rand that now experiences pleasure in his life and has control over his panic disorder. He acknowledges how patterns of behavior that begin in childhood are hard to change. Recovery, the author recognizes, is an individualized experience. In Chapter 2, the author relates how his family upbringing shaped and solidied his image of himself. Being a self-controlled, serious, and scholarly person was valued in his home. In contrast, showing public displays of emotional abandon and drawing attention to your body (like dancing freestyle) were thought to be sources of embarrassment and shame. Dancing was a big part of the 70s experience, but Rand felt self-conscious and inept. His fear of dancing imperfectly left him socially isolated and self-conscious. It...