This book gives a nice explanation of panic attacks and anxiety, and tells readers what is happening in the body during the panic attacks. This is usually reassuring for panic attack sufferers. Natural Relief for Anxiety also offers some good stress management techniques, like massage, homeopathy and aromatherapy. These are all helpful in the context of a full anxiety reduction/management program. Bourne, however, comes down like a hammer on the wrong side of the drug debate, and risks alienating those whose choices have been narrowed to psychotropic medication or instituionalization. Bourne overemphasizes the side effects of SSRI and anti-anxiety drugs, while failing to emphasize the importance of good medication management and trial and error to find the medication that works best for an individual. A better approach to take would have been to show how to implement other anxiety reduction and coping techniques along with medication, and the issues that arise from using the two methods together. Bourne's writing style is superb, as always, but he transforms a very gray issue into a black and white standoff.