a step-by-step approach to gaining control over depression /
Paul Gilbert.
2nd ed.
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
1 online resource (xxiii, 382 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Preface to the Revised Edition; Preface to the First Edition; PART I: Understanding Depression; PART II: Learning How to Cope; PART III: Special Problems Associated with Depression; Appendix 1: Monitoring and Challenging Your Thoughts; Appendix 2: Quick Guides; Appendix 3: Antidepressants; Appendix 4: Useful Books and Addresses; Index; Extra Monitoring Sheets.
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St. John's Wort, Prozac, psychotherapy, support groups--today's individual suffering from depression has a laundry list of treatments to choose from. For many, Paul Gilbert's self-help manual Overcoming Depression--based on the highly effective technique of cognitive behavioral therapy--will provide a lifeline to recovery and a better future, as a way to understand and thus resist the downward slide of depression, and as a resource to supplement therapy or medication. Cognitive behavioral therapy, which treats emotional disorders by changing negative thought-patterns, is now internationally es.