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Overcoming Depression: A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioral Techniques (3rd Edition)
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By Paul Gilbert
A completely revised and updated edition of the best-selling title in the Overcoming Series, this self-help manual, based on 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 established as a key method for overcoming conditions such as depression, anxiety, panic attacks, and eating disorders. The principle behind this form of therapy is that our thoughts have a major impact on our emotions: a person who goes through life thinking "I am unlovable," or "I'll never achieve anything," will find constant evidence to support his or her beliefs.
This book explains the many forms and causes of depression and lays out clinically proven techniques for dealing with this debilitating condition. Readers will gain insight into problem areas such as perfectionism, shame, anger, and aggression, and how these areas can become exacerbated by depression.
Part One: Understanding Depression - Chapters include: - What is depression?
- Causes of depression: how and why it happens
- How evolution may have shaped our minds for depression
- Bodies, genes, stress, and coping: more on the mind-body link
- Early life and the psychological and social aspects of a depression
- The relationship between our thoughts and feelings in depression
Part Two: Learning How to Cope - Chapters include:- Mindful preparations for working with depression
- Switching our minds to kindness and compassion
- Changing unhelpful thoughts and feelings: Balance and compassion
- Styles of depressive thinking: How to develop helpful styles
- Writing things down: How to do it and why it can be helpful
- Changing your behavior: A compassionate approach
Part Three: Developing Supportive Relationships with Ourselves - Chapters include:- Stop criticizing and bullying yourself: How to treat yourself with compassion
- Depressed ways of experiencing ourselves: How compassionate re-focusing can change our experience
- Further ways of helping ourselves change
Part Four: Special Problems Associated With Depression - Chapters include:- Approval, subordination, and bullying: Key issues in relationships
- Understanding and healing shame in depression
- Understanding and coping with guilt
- Coping with anger
- From anger to assertiveness and forgiveness
- Dealing with frustrations, disappointments, and lost ideals
- Summing up
Four appendices are included. 594 pages. Softcover. September 2009.
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Price: $21.95
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