Reneau Z. Peurifoy (October 14, 1949) is a self-help book author and marriage counselor.
His first book, Anxiety, Phobias & Panic: Taking Charge and Conquering Fear [1] currently has over 180,000 copies in print. [2] Originally published in 1988. [3] A revised second edition was released by Warner Books in 1995. [4] It was again updated and released in its third edition in 2005. [5] It has a UK edition [6] as well as editions in German, [7] Spanish, [8] and Hungarian. [9] His second book, Overcoming Anxiety: From Short-Term Fixes to Long-Term Recovery, was released in 1997 by Henry Holt. [10] It also has a Spanish edition [11] and will soon be released in a German edition. His third book, Anger: Taming the Beast, was released in June 1999 by Kodansha America. [12] It also has a Dutch edition [13] and will soon be released in a German edition by Hans Huber.
Mr. Peurifoy's fourth book, Why Did God Give Us Emotions? was released in September 2009. [14]
Mr. Peurifoy was in private practice for twenty years (1980 – 2000) as a marriage and family therapist specializing in anxiety disorders. [2] He retired from private practice in 2000 and is currently teaching at Heald College [15] in Sacramento, California.