Kategoria BISAC: Self-Help >> Mood Disorders - Depression

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Amongst Jason's rap and hip hop influences are Ice T, NWA, De La Soul, PM Dawn, Eminem, Dr Dre, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Ice Cube, Naughty By Nature, Sugar Hill Gang, 2 Pac, Notorious Big. Jason sees rap and hip hop as a potential force for social good.

About the Author

Jason Pegler is known internationally for his work as a social entrepreneur. He was born in 1975. He was diagnosed with manic depression in 1992. This is his sixth book. He is the author of 'A Can of Madness', 'Curing Madness', 'The Ultimate Guide To Well Being' and 'Mental Health Publishing and Empowerment'....

In Depression and the Soul, John Peteet proves the old adage that the best physician is also a philosopher. He considers how to approach the problem of depression within a larger context, and reviews current concepts of successful living relative to the heart (emotion and volition), the mind (cognition and coping), and the soul (the self in relation to transcendent reality). Each chapter goes on to further explore the relationship between depression and the context of a patient s entire life. This is done through consideration of how the existential struggles of depressed...

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This book has been written out of the recent experience of two and a half years of severe depression. The author had herself been a social worker with counsellor training.

Depression is a serious illness or mental condition which crushes your capacity to help yourself.

The majority of self-help books, and even counselling itself, seem geared to mild or moderate depression. That is the kind of the depression which will respond to "think positive" ideas, a walk in the park, a talk with a friend.

Getting a reliable diagnosis is difficult. But a diagnosis is...

For more than a century, the psychotherapist role has been dominated by Freud s neutrality rule: don t become personally involved with patients McCullough challenges this widely accepted dictum in a new treatment approach for the chronically depressed patient. He proposes disciplined personal involvement as an alternative to therapist neutrality with chronically depressed patients, describing how this approach can be used in a contingent manner to successfully modify pathological behavior. These latest guidelines expand on his pioneering work, Treatment for Chronic Depression: Cognitive...