Books

Depression Explained - What to do when someone you love is Depressed, Gwendoline Smith

Psychologist, Gwendoline Smith, suffered clinical depression herself and fully appreciates how difficult it was for loved ones to be supportive and effective. In Depression Explained, which is an update of her original book, Sharing the Load, she faces these issues and combines personal experience, clinical information and commonsense advice. Depression Explained includes chapters on depression in childhood and in the elderly as well as how to help those suffering from post-partum and adolescent depression.

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, Vol. 1
David D. Burns

The good news is that anxiety, guilt, pessimism, procrastination, Low self-esteem, and other "black holes" of depression can be cured Without drugs! In Feeling Good, eminent psychiatrist, David D. Burns, M.D., outlines the remarkable, scientifically proven techniques that will immediately lift your spirits and help you develop A positive outlook on life.

Learned Optimism - How to Change your Mind and your Life
Martin E. Seligman

Martin Seligman, a renowned psychologist and clinical researcher, Has been studying optimists and pessimists for 25 years. "Pessimism is escapable", asserts Seligman, by learning a new set of cognitive skills that will enable you to take charge, resist depression, and make yourself feel better and accomplish more. This book teaches readers how to choose optimism - thereby gaining An essential new freedom to build a life of real rewards and lasting fulfilment.

Dealing with Depression
Gordon Parker

Dealing with Depression is a brief, user-friendly guide to depression and mood disorders for sufferers, their families, and health professionals who care for them. Drawing on his extensive clinical and research experience, Professor Parker offers a clear description of depression.

What To Do When Someone You Love is Depressed
Mitch Golant and Susan K. Golant

Writen for family and friends of those suffering from depression.

An Unquiet Mind
Kay Redfield Jamison

First-person account of a manic-depressive illness.

Undoing Depression: What Therapy Doesn't Teach You and Medication Can't Give You, Richard O'Connor (Psychotherapist)

How You Can Survive When They're Depressed: Living and Coping With Depression Fallout, Anne Sheffield

I Don't Want To Talk About It: Overcoming The Secret Legacy of Male Depression, Terrence Real (Psychotherapist)

Beating the Blues: A Self-Help Approach to Overcoming Depression, Sue Tanner and Jill Ball

'Beating the Blues' introduces a step-by-step programme for overcoming depression, and conquering the feelings of hopelessness, persistent bouts of jealousy, loneliness and the suicidal impulse.

Choosing to live: How to defeat suicide through cognitive therapy, Thomas E. Ellis and Cory F. Newman