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Undoing Depression
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8527
EAN: 9780425166796
ISBN: 0425166791
Label: Berkley Trade
Manufacturer: Berkley Trade
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: January 01, 1999
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Studio: Berkley Trade
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Editorial Review:
For some people, depression has been a part of their experience for so long that they've begun to believe it's what they are. They become experts at "doing" depression--hiding it, working around it, even achieving great things (but at the price of great struggle, and little satisfaction). In this book, psychotherapist Richard O'Conner shows us how to "undo" depression, by replacing depressive patterns of thinking, relating, and behaving with a new and more effective set of skills. With a truly holistic approach that synthesizes the best of the many schools of thought about this painful disease, O'Conner offers new hope--and new life--for depressives.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Wow
Very insightful- alot of good information the parts that related to me the most were:
-I found that I do not nor have I ever had depression. I am just likely to grieve when there are problems which is why I feel as I do from time to time- great in one part but leaves me not knowing how to help myself during the month or two long episodes every 18 months so (when whatever is occuring in my life accumulate to the point that I don't want to get up in the morning.) However, I suspect that ... Read More
Rating: - Worth A Read
Well worth the read.
Some great insight into depression, with solid direction and advice.
As this book is actually written by a person with first hand experience, it is definitley more believable.
Easy to read as it's not highly "medicalised" and jargon filled.
I'd recommend it to anyone sufferring depression, or for health care staff and families of those whose lives have become affected.
Rating:  - Helped me understand I wasn't alone
I recently pulled this book off my shelf to give it to someone close suffering their own depression. I read it - and many more books - years ago when tackling my own illness. Paging through and seeing all the underlines and dog-eared pages, I recalled how this one book along with group therapy is what helped me pull though. I could identify so much with what I read and was re-assured that I wasn't alone in feeling those thoughts. This book is not full of self-help exercises as the genre tends to be ... Read More
Rating:  - Very informative book, but one major flaw
I have lived with a very deep depression for 15 years, slowly making progress back to my happier self. My mother purchased this book during one of my hospitalizations, and I read it thoroughly, highlighting throughout. The spotlight reviewer describes its contents very well. The only thing I want to add is how dismayed I felt when the author wrote off suicide as "stupid and selfish." This says to me that the author has never been through crippling depression himself. And I certainly hope he never ... Read More
Rating: - Great Resource for Depression
I have referred all of my depresssed cleints to this book. It is a broad-based approach to contending with depression, and is eminantly usable. O'Conner takes a commen sense approach to a debilitating process, and in doing so, exhibits uncommon intelligence in offering a wide variety of approaches to dealing with depression, which is notoriously difficult to treat and requires a multi-headed approach for best results. No one school is best, and clients benefit from a multitude of suggestions founds ... Read More
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