Undoing Depression: What Therapy Doesn't Teach You and Medication Can't Give You - Brossura

O'Connor, Richard

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0285638025 ISBN 13: 9780285638020

Casa editrice: Souvenir Press Ltd, 2007

Riassunto

In a truly holistic approach that combines the best of many schools of thought about depression Richard O'Connor offers new hope - and new life. One in ten people suffer from depression and for many sufferers depression has been their experience for so long that it is possible to believe that it has become who they are. Yet, depression is an illness, like heart disease; it is something that one "has". "The major reason why people with depression stay depressed despite therapy, medication, and support from loved ones is that we are simply unable to imagine an alternative. We know how it do depression. We are experts at it." Like heart disease depression is fuelled by complex, interrelated factors: genetic, environmental, biochemical. In this eminently sensible book Richard O'Connor considers another, often overlooked factor: our own habits. Unwittingly, the sufferer can become 'good at depression'. Learning how to hide it, how to work around it, perhaps even achieving in their life a depressive can make it through every day but each day is a struggle rather than satisfying. They deprive themselves of the possibility of true recovery, of joy and healthy emotion, of the feeling of being alive in the world. Ultimately, they make things worse. "Undoing Depression" teaches you how to replace depressive patterns of thought and relating to other people and behaving with new, better skills. Anyone who has learned to do depression can learn how to undo it.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Richard O'Connor is the author of five books, Undoing Depression, Active Treatment of Depression, Undoing Perpetual Stress, Happy At Last, and Rewire. For fourteen years he was executive director of the Northwest Center for Family Service and Mental Health, overseeing the treatment of almost a thousand patients per year. He is a practicing psychotherapist, with offices in Canaan, Connecticut, and New York City, and he lives with his family in Lakeville, Connecticut.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Souvenir Press Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0285638025
• ISBN 13: 9780285638020
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 368
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile