Heal Thyself: Internet-Based Self-Help for Social Phobia Shows Promise

Treating social phobia without personal contact between patient and therapist–or without any therapist involvement at all–could be viewed as ironic, but two recent studies suggest that it works. Self-guided online therapy may offer relief for a wide range of disorders. The first study, published in the October 2010 issue of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry , found that self-guided, Internet-based cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) reduced social phobia symptoms in most of the participants

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Heal Thyself: Internet-Based Self-Help for Social Phobia Shows Promise