Author: Tom Wootton Publisher: Bipolar Advantage Publishing ISBN: 0977442322 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 196
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Drawing from historical and literary examples ranging from the lives of the saints to Buddhist parables to pop-culture heroes like the X-Men, "The Depression Advantage" demonstrates that spiritual and emotional pain can actually be a catalyst for personal growth and transcendent understanding.
Author: Tom Wootton Publisher: Bipolar Advantage Publishing ISBN: 0977442306 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 202
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Based on Wootton's Bipolar in Order Seminar that he has developed over the past two years, this book focuses on the positive approach to the bipolar condition. It is about coming to an acceptance of oneself while striving to become a better person.
Author: Terrence Real Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0684865394 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 390
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A bestseller for over 20 years, I Don’t Want to Talk About It is a groundbreaking and hopeful guide to understanding and destigmatizing male depression, essential not only for men who may be suffering but for the people who love them. Twenty years of experience treating men and their families has convinced psychotherapist Terrence Real that depression is a silent epidemic in men—that men hide their condition from family, friends, and themselves to avoid the stigma of depression’s “un-manliness.” Problems that we think of as typically male—difficulty with intimacy, workaholism, alcoholism, abusive behavior, and rage—are really attempts to escape depression. And these escape attempts only hurt the people men love and pass their condition on to their children. This groundbreaking book is the “pathway out of darkness” that these men and their families seek. Real reveals how men can unearth their pain, heal themselves, restore relationships, and break the legacy of abuse. He mixes penetrating analysis with compelling tales of his patients and even his own experiences with depression as the son of a violent, depressed father and the father of two young sons.
Author: Paul Krugman Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393088871 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 290
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A New York Times best-selling call to arms from Nobel Prize–winning economist Paul Krugman. The Great Recession is more than four years old—and counting. Yet, as Paul Krugman points out in this powerful volley, "Nations rich in resources, talent, and knowledge—all the ingredients for prosperity and a decent standard of living for all—remain in a state of intense pain." How bad have things gotten? How did we get stuck in what now can only be called a depression? And above all, how do we free ourselves? Krugman pursues these questions with his characteristic lucidity and insight. He has a powerful message for anyone who has suffered over these past four years—a quick, strong recovery is just one step away, if our leaders can find the "intellectual clarity and political will" to end this depression now.
Author: Randy J. Paterson Publisher: New Harbinger Publications ISBN: Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 324
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Based on the premise that depression is not an isolated disorder but a cluster of related disorders, this workbook asks readers to look at the multiple causes and symptoms of their depression and the myths that may hinder healing. Illustrations, charts & graphs.
Author: Tom Wootton Publisher: Bipolar Advantage Publishing ISBN: 0977442349 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 228
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By examining all states of depression, mixed states, and mania unflinchingly and deeply, Wootton arrives at conclusions that challenge the current paradigm. His treatment solution is to confront these conditions head on, identify one's strengths, and learn self-mastery.
Author: S. Nassir Ghaemi Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 1421409348 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 229
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Lasting happiness comes not from chasing the American dream but from living an authentic life—which includes despair. In a culture obsessed with youth, financial success, and achieving happiness, is it possible to live an authentic, meaningful life? Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorder Program at Tufts Medical Center, reflects on our society's current quest for happiness and rejection of any emotion resembling sadness. On Depression asks readers to consider the benefits of despair and the foibles of an unexamined life. Too often depression as disease is mistreated or not treated at all. Ghaemi warns against the "pretenders" who confuse our understanding of depression—both those who deny disease and those who use psychiatric diagnosis "pragmatically" or unscientifically. But experiencing sadness, even depression, can also have benefits. Ghaemi asserts that we can create a "narrative of ourselves such that we know and accept who we are," leading to a deeper, lasting level of contentment and a more satisfying personal and public life. Depression is complex, and we need guides to help us understand it, guides who comprehend it existentially as part of normal human experience and clinically as sometimes needing the right kind of treatment, including medications. Ghaemi discusses these guides in detail, thinkers like Viktor Frankl, Rollo May, Karl Jaspers, and Leston Havens, among others. On Depression combines examples from philosophy and the history of medicine with psychiatric principles informed by the author's clinical experience with people who struggle with mental illness. He has seen great achievements arise from great suffering and feels that understanding depression can provide important insights into happiness.
Author: Jonathan Rottenberg Publisher: Basic Books ISBN: 0465069738 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 272
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Nearly every depressed person is assured by doctors, well-meaning friends and family, the media, and ubiquitous advertisements that the underlying problem is a chemical imbalance. Such a simple defect should be fixable, yet despite all of the resources that have been devoted to finding a pharmacological solution, depression remains stubbornly widespread. Why are we losing this fight? In this humane and illuminating challenge to defect models of depression, psychologist Jonathan Rottenberg argues that depression is a particularly severe outgrowth of our natural capacity for emotion. In other words, it is a low mood gone haywire. Drawing on recent developments in the science of mood—and his own harrowing depressive experience as a young adult—Rottenberg explains depression in evolutionary terms, showing how its dark pull arises from adaptations that evolved to help our ancestors ensure their survival. Moods, high and low, evolved to compel us to more efficiently pursue rewards. While this worked for our ancestors, our modern environment—in which daily survival is no longer a sole focus—makes it all too easy for low mood to slide into severe, long-lasting depression. Weaving together experimental and epidemiological research, clinical observations, and the voices of individuals who have struggled with depression, The Depths offers a bold new account of why depression endures—and makes a strong case for de-stigmatizing this increasingly common condition. In so doing, Rottenberg offers hope in the form of his own and other patients’ recovery, and points the way towards new paths for treatment.
Author: Charles P. Kindleberger Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520055926 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 386
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“The World in Depression is the best book on the subject, and the subject, in turn, is the economically decisive decade of the century so far.”—John Kenneth Galbraith
Author: Tom Wootton
Author: Tom Wootton
Author: Terrence Real
Author: Paul Krugman
Author: Randy J. Paterson
Author: Tom Wootton
Author: S. Nassir Ghaemi
Author: Jonathan Rottenberg
Author: Committee on Nomenclature and Statistics American Psychiatric Association
Author: Charles P. Kindleberger