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Title: Undoing Depression: What Therapy Doesn't Teach You and Medication Can't Give You by Richard O'Connor, Richard O'Conner ISBN: 0-425-16679-1 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: January, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.69 (83 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: O'Connor Excellent on Depression and Negativity
Comment: The reading public seems to have become well aware that Richard O'Connor's book "Undoing Depression" is a truly excellent and very helpful approach to understanding and dealing with that powerful negative force -- depression. I want to add a related point, which concerns O'Connor's other book, "Active Treatment of Depression." Although that book is aimed at therapists, I would recommend it also as a follow-up for any reader who appreciated "Undoing Depression." Reading his 2 books in sequence is a doubly helpful process. As psychologists become more aware of how depression is usually embedded in a broader pattern of negativity -- worry, anxiety, pessimism -- readers can benefit from those broader, related insights. For example, The Positive Power of Negative Thinking by Julie Norem updates traditional cognitive therapy with new understanding of 'constructive pessimism' as a cognitive-emotional experience. And, as other reviewers have pointed out, the cognitive therapy classic Feeling Good is still useful today. So don't miss O'Connor's 2 books, and related titles may help with the broader psychological context.
Rating: 4
Summary: Insightful & practical
Comment: Richard O'Connor, a psychotherapist who has suffered from depression himself, recognizes that there are many approaches to understanding and healing depression, and rather than evangelizing one tidy but inadequate ideology of depression, he shares his accumulated practical wisdom, which untidily but intelligently incorporates aspects of many approaches. How refreshing! How helpful!
Medication and therapy can both help, he thinks, but we also need to replace depressive habits with new skills that therapy might not teach. The book focuses on these skills, grouped into five areas: emotions, behavior, thought processes, relationships (focusing on communication), and the sense of self. Lest that sound overwhelming, O'Connor notes that "you don't have to do it all at once. . . . Any chapter, any suggestion, may be enough to get you started on a self-reinforcing cycle of healthy behavior."
Other books I've found helpful: John & Andrea Nelson's "Sacred Sorrows," a collection of essays on a wide variety of approaches to depression, including psychotherapeutic, psychiatric, and spiritual. Cheri Huber's "The Depression Book," on using depression as fodder for your spiritual practice. Julia Cameron's "The Artist's Way," which I think is a powerful anti-depression book, even though it's not explicitly about depression and even if you have no special interest in being an "artist." William Appleton's "Prozac and the New Antidepressants." Hyla Cass's "St. John's Wort."
Rating: 5
Summary: for anyone, this book is amazing!!
Comment: I can't say enough good things about this book. I was diagnosed 10 years ago with depression and recently have gotten worse, this book literally fell into my hands at the bookstore I work at. It was a wonderful gift from God, I bought the book that day, and I'm sooo glad.
This book is great for anyone, those suffering from depression, those loved ones have depression, and any mental health professionals. I wish I could buy a bunch of this book and hand it out to people. It's given me more hope than I can explain for my my recovery. I know it's going to take a lot more work than just reading this book, but Dr. O'Connor helps you realize that in this book.
Please, if you are suffering from depression, pick up this book, Dr. O'Connors' insight is amazing, he's been there himself and seems to write about so many feelings I've thought and felt. He knows where we've been and he's helping me get where I want to be.
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Title: Breaking the Patterns of Depression by Michael D. Yapko ISBN: 0385483708 Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 15 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: What To Do When Someone You Love Is Depressed : A Practical, Compassionate, and Helpful Guide for Caregivers by Mitch Golant, Susan K. Golant ISBN: 080505829X Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Feeling Good : The New Mood Therapy by David D. Burns ISBN: 0380810336 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 05 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Self-Coaching: How to Heal Anxiety and Depression by Joseph J. Luciani ISBN: 0471387371 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 12 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Depression Fallout : The Impact of Depression on Couples and What You Can Do to Preserve the Bond by Anne Sheffield ISBN: 0060009349 Publisher: Quill Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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