Edmund Bourne

Who is Edmund Bourne?

Edmund J. Bourne, PH.D. is an American self-help author, psychologist and researcher on anxiety, anxiety disorders and the treatment of anxiety disorders. He was the director of The Anxiety and Treatment Center in San Jose and Santa Rosa, California. In 1990, Edmund Bourne published The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook, a self-help book that won the Benjamin Franklin Book Award for Excellence in Psychology. This book is now in its 5th Edition and due for a 6th Edition in 2015.

He lives and practices in Florida and California.

Dr. Bourne also has a long standing interest in collective societal world views as well as philosophy. In his 2008 Book, Global Shift, he explores evolving world views and paradigms in current Western Society, looking forward over the next twenty years.

In 2013, Dr. Bourne completed a series of essays on topics of perennial interest, such as the afterlife, the problem of human suffering and evil, the nature of consciousness, and comparative views of deity. These essays can be found by clicking on the menu item New Explorations at Dr. Bourne's web site, Globalshiftnow.com.

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