Description
Therapies and self-help
An authoritative appraisal of the most effective treatments, with practical advice on helping yourself, improving your own powers of healing and preventing a recurrence.
Understanding the problem
The nature of depression with specially compiled diagnostic questionnaires.
Overcoming Depression is an accessible, enlightening and constructive guide to a very widespread problem. The book looks at all different levels of depression, describes how a person's past history and personality as well as physical factors can affect their mental state and then looks at ways of overcoming depression, from simple self-help methods to forms of psychotherapy and physical treatments. The treatments are assessed to help the reader find the right therapists. The final section discusses ways of preventing a recurrence.
ISBN:9780863181610
