A guide for our times

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A guide for our times

Barbara Docherty

Barbara Docherty

Claire Weekes 1932
Claire Weekes developed a six-word panacea: Facing, Accepting, Floating, Letting Time Pass for dealing with anxiety

Health officials could do worse than send every health professional a copy of Claire Weekes’ seminal work as they try to fix the mental unwellness tsunami, writes Barbara Docherty

I’d never heard of her but couldn’t work out why not. The best self-help book for anxiety had been under my nose for years, yet none of my colleagues,