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Title
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Author
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Publisher
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Review
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| **Beating
Depression |
John
Rush |
Century |
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| **Darkness
Visible |
William
Styron |
Jonathon
Cape |
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| **The
Complete Guide to Psychiatric Drugs |
Ron
Lacey |
Ebury |
Synopsis
The revised edition of this handbook includes
recent medical research on the many and widely
prescribed psychiatric drugs which form a major
part of NHS prescriptions. It covers the benefits,
side-effects and hazards of the entire range,
with advice on use in pregnancy, childhood and
old age. |
| Beating
Depression |
Philip
Barker |
Chapman
and Hall |
|
| An
Unquiet Mind |
Kay
Redfield Jamison |
Picador |
The
author is an American Professor of Psychiatry
who is regarded as an international authority
on manic depression. In this autobiography she
faces up to the illness as both researcher and
sufferer. Jamison's academic understanding combined
with her first-hand experience give a richly
flowing narrative of M.D. incidents alongside
insights into her personal and professional
lives.
Mike, MDF Aberdeen
An autobiography of someone who suffers from
Manic Depression. Kay is a psychologist and
a world expert on the illness. The book is
brilliant. One of those books that is hard
to put down. I think it particularly good
for those of us who struggle to understand
what it must be like to have depression or
mania. I recommend it to all families and
carers. To sufferers it also gives hope simply
because of how she has overcome the illness,
how she has coped with applying for jobs and
ultimately become a world expert on the subject.
Martin Briscoe - Psychiatrist
|
| Anxiety
and Depression |
Robert
Priest |
MacDonald
Optima |
Synopsis
A self-help guide to recovery from anxiety and
depression. It covers methods to reduce stress
and offers an explanation of the causes and
effects of anxiety and depression. It provides
up-to-date information on the professional help
available and details the action and side-effects
of medication. |
| Beating
the Blues |
Brigid
McConville |
Headline |
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| Carbamazepine
and Manic Depression : A Guide |
Lithium
Information |
Centre |
Reviews
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| Climbing
Out of Depression |
Sue
Atkinson |
Lion |
Synopsis
Depression is a dark and isolating experience.
Countless people suffer from it. Anyone who
has fallen into a pit of depression wants to
climb back out. but that is not easy to do.
Depressed people often feel paralysed into inaction.
So help is needed - practical, humane and spiritual
help. Which is just what this book offers. Aimed
at people suffering from depression, this text
provides a wealth of practical advice and ideas
for overcoming it. The connecting thread throughout
the chapters is the picture of someone who has
fallen down a cliff, making the climb back up.
Sue Atkinson has suffered years of depression
herself. She does not write as an expert, but
as someone who knows the feelings from close
personal experience. This is what makes this
book helpful. It does not contain page after
page of unbroken print, but a varied menu of
hints, quotations and illustrations. This is
a book to dip into as fits a person's mood and
the need of the moment. The reader should find
it a dependable guide for the climb. Each section
opens with a line drawing of a lemming at the
relevant stage of the climb. |
| Comfort
for Depression |
Janet
Horwood |
Sheldon
Press |
|
| Coping
with Depression |
Myra
Chave-Jones |
Lion |
|
| Coping
with Depression and Elation |
Patrick
McKeon |
Sheldon |
Synopsis
Depressive mood swings can affect people of
both sexes and every age. This book describes
the causes, symptoms and treatment of depressive
moods. Dr McKeon discusses fully the ways in
which mood swings can be recognised - the signs
of depression and its opposite, an unnatural
elation. He also reveals the problems that can
arise if the illness is not diagnosed - it may
lead to alcohol dependence, overspending, sexual
excess, and even, if the depression is deep
enough, to suicide. He gives advice on how patients
and their families can learn to cope and points
out that most sufferers come to term with and
accept the problem. |
| Coping
with Stress at Work |
Jacqueline
Atkinson |
Thorsons |
Synopsis
This is a self-help guide to managing stress
in a working environment which aims to show
how anyone can deal with stress in a way which
both suits them and which is appropriate to
their circumstances. The book discusses ways
of coping with stress and potential stressors
by focusing on the two complimentary issues
of attitude and skill. The reader is encouraged
to examine and challenge his beliefs and develop
new ways of thinking as well as dealing with
such items as more efficient time management.
The author gives general principles of staying
healthy - work-related stress can lead to a
range of physical and mental health problems
but also deals with specifics such as time management,
communication problems, difficulties in work
roles and relationships. |
| Counselling
for Depression |
Paul
Gilbert |
Sage |
Synopsis
This practical and comprehensive guide demonstrates
the essential interpersonal skills and techniques
- including reflecting, paraphrasing, summarising
and empathy - which can be used to counsel the
depressed person. The book explores the complexities
of the depressive experience and examines the
central issues of abandonment, sense of failure,
powerlessness, shame and guilt inherent in the
nature of depression. Paul Gilbert illustrates
the absolute need for the counsellor to be aware
of the fragility and negativity of the depressive
state and focuses on the importance for both
client and counsellor of the therapeutic relationship
and the role of the guided discovery. Using
carefully chosen illustrations and case examples,
Gilbert traces the steps appropriate at different
stages in the counselling process and shows
how the counsellor can help the client to change,
and to take over the whole method of change,
in order to cope independently. A final section
looks at the special problems which arise in
depressed clients.
|
| Depression |
Don
Baker/Emery Nestor |
Marshalls |
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| Depression |
Greg
Wilkinson |
Equation |
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| Depression |
Paul
Hauck |
Sheldon |
Synopsis
A book for everyone who gets depressed and for
those who have to live or work with people who
suffer from depression. This book pinpoints
three main roots of psychologically caused depression
- self-blame, harsh criticism of one's own behaviour
which leads to excessive guilt - self-pity,
feeling sorry for oneself when the world's treatment
is unfair, and other-pity - associating too
strongly with the under-dog in other people.
Case histories illustrate these points from
the author's practice, and show that many people
have been taught to be neurotic and can be trained
not to be. |
| Depression |
Robert
Romanis |
Faber
& Faber |
|
| Depression
After Childbirth |
Katharina
Dalton |
Oxford |
Synopsis
I still cannot believe the contrasts between
the two births. Every day was filled with relief
and joy that the terrible unhappy time before
had not come back... I now feel cheated of the
closeness and happiness I could have enjoyed
with my first baby.' Letter from mother given
progesterone therapy for the birth of her second
child. It is estimated that eight out of ten
mothers go through a period of `post-baby blues'
and that one in ten suffer from a more serious
form of postnatal depression. It is never easy
for the mother or for her family and friends
to understand exactly what is happening, and
to distinguish between the relatively mild `blues'
and the more severe cases of depression. In
this book Katharina Dalton, an international
authority on pre-menstrual syndrome and postnatal
depression and pioneer of hormone therapy, describes
the whole spectrum of symptoms, discusses the
social and psychological as well as the hormonal
factors, and shows how this debilitating and
sometimes deadly disease can not only be treated
but also prevented. This book is intended for
women who have suffered or are suffering from
postnatal depression, their families and friends,
GPs, midwives, health visitors, community psychiatric
nurses, obstetricians, psychiatrists. |
| Depression
and How to Survive It |
Spike
Milligan and Dr. Anthony Clare |
Ebury
Press |
|
| Depression
and Mania - Modern Lithium Therapy |
F.N.
Johnson |
TRl
|
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| Depression:
Questions You Have.Answers You Need |
Sandra
Salmans |
Thorsons |
Synopsis
Depression affects ten per cent of women and
four per cent of men in the UK at some stage
in their life. This guide answers some of the
most commonly asked questions about depression
to help a sufferer take practical steps towards
recovery. |
| Diamonds
Behind My Eyes |
Nicola
Pagett Graham Swannell |
Victor
Gollancz |
Synopsis
Nicola Pagett, known for her work in "Upstairs
Downstairs" and "A Bit of a Do",
was acting in a Joe Orton play when manic depression
took over and she had a breakdown. This is the
story of her illness and subsequent recovery.
|
| Disability
Rights Handbook April '97
- |
April
'98 |
Judith
Paterson Disability Alliance E.R.A |
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| Hidden
Words |
Spike
Milligan |
Michael
Joseph |
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| How
To Heal Depression |
Harold
Bloomfield Peter McWilliams |
Thorsons |
Synopsis
Most people don't understand that depression
is an illness just like heart disease, high
blood pressure or diabetes and that it needs
to be treated as such. It's quite possible to
suffer from depression and not feel sad or emotionally
down but more importantly, at least two-thirds
of the people who suffer from depression, don't
even know it. This book is full of important
information on how to understand the illness
and how to treat it effectively.
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| I'm
OK - You're OK |
Thomas
A. Harris |
Pan |
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| Impressive
Depressives |
Peter
Lawrence |
M.D.F. |
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| Knowing
our Own Minds |
Mental
Health Found |
|
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| Lithium
and Manic Depression; A Guide |
Lithium
Information |
Centre |
|
| Lithium
Treatment of Manic Depressive Illness |
Mogens
Schou |
Karger |
|
| Loneliness |
Tony
Lake |
Sheldon
Press |
|
| Manic
Depressive Illness |
Goodwin
& Jamison |
Oxford |
Synopsis
Amazon.co.uk Customer
Comments
|
| Mental
Health Handbook |
Tony
Drew Madeline King |
Piatkus |
Synopsis
This paperback brings together information
for the benefit of mental illness sufferers
and carers. There are fifteen chapters dealing
with:
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the types of mental illness
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treatment
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the professionals
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carers' needs
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patients' rights and welfare
benefits
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The book contains many addresses
of organisations and a glossary of psychiatric
terms
Mike, MDF Aberdeen
|
| More
Help for Your Nerves |
Claire
Weekes |
Thorsons |
Synopsis
As a sequel to "Self Help For Your Nerves",
this book explains how nervous symptoms and
experiences develop. Dr. Weekes believes that
stress can produce symptoms and experiences
that in time become more important to the nervously
ill person than the original cause of the illness.
|
| Nervous
Breakdown |
Jenny
Cozens |
Piatkus |
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| Not
on Your Own |
Sally
Burningham |
Penguin |
|
| Obsessive
Compulsive Disorder |
Frederick
Toates |
Thorsons |
|
| One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
Ken
Kesey |
Picador |
|
| Overcoming
Depression |
Andrew
Stanway |
Arrow |
|
| Overcoming
Depression |
Caroline
Shreeve |
Thorsons |
|
| Overcoming
Depression |
Paul
Gilbert |
Robinson |
|
| Proper
Channels |
Lydia
Sinclair |
(MIND) |
|
| S.A.D.
- Winter Depression |
Angela
Smyth |
Unwin |
Synopsis
An examination of "seasonal affective disorder"
(SAD), an illness caused by lack of light during
winter. This book contains case histories and
a self-help programme which should help combat
the illness, including practical information
on how to go about getting light treatment.
|
| Self
Help for Your Nerves |
Claire
Weekes |
Thorsons |
|
| Spike
Milligan - A Biography |
Pauline
Scudamore |
Grafton |
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| Stop
The World |
Murray
Watts Cary Cooper |
Hodder
and Stoughton |
Synopsis
How we handle stress affects our lives; it may
even affect the length of our lives. The authors
of this monograph aim to show that coping with
stress requires a radical but positive and healing
change of lifestyle and attitude. Topics covered
include how to meet the challenges of stress,
and how to find the right solutions rather than
the self-destructive ones. It offers practical
advice on dealing with stress: life planning,
taking breaks, managing time, living in the
present, meditation and diet. |
| Sweet,
Sour and Serious |
Survivors
Poetry |
Survivors
Press Scotland |
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| Taking
Care - An Alternative to Therapy |
David
Smail |
Dent |
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| The
Bell Jar |
Sylvia
Plath |
Faber
& Faber |
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| The
Christian Watt Papers |
David
Fraser |
Caledonian |
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| The
Kenneth Williams Diaries |
Russell
Davies |
Harper
Collins |
|
| The
Pure Account |
Olive
Fraser |
Aberdeen
University |
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| The
Road Less Travelled |
Scott
Peck |
Arrow |
Reviews
Amazon.co.uk
Customer Comments
This book is amazing!!
A work of genius and love to heal our minds
and communities
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| Touched
with Fire |
Kay
Redfield Jamison |
Free
Press |
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| Travelling
Hopefully |
Heather
Heaton |
Piatkus |
|
| Wrestling
With Depression |
William
& Lucy Hulme |
Augsburg |
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