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Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression
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Manufacturer: Penguin Press HC, The
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8527
EAN: 9781594201660
ISBN: 1594201668
Label: Penguin Press HC, The
Manufacturer: Penguin Press HC, The
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: 2008-06-12
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Studio: Penguin Press HC, The
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A groundbreaking, inspiring, and practical guide to healing depression without the use of antidepressants, from world-renowned, Harvard trained psychiatrist Dr. James S. Gordon
Each year, as many as twenty million Americans are diagnosed with clinical depression. Tens of millions more have low energy or feel unhappy and dissatisfied with their lives. And each year, American doctors write 189 million prescriptions for antidepressant drugs for these people. Dr. James Gordon, a Harvard Medical School-educated psychiatrist who founded and directs The Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, D.C., has been helping his patients find their way out of the darkness of depression for the past forty years. He has worked with everyone from high-powered Washington politicians to Hurricane Katrina victims, from overstressed doctors, lawyers, and stay-at-home moms to orphans from war-ravaged Kosovo and Gaza. Each one of Dr. Gordon’s patients is unique, but all suffer from some level of depression, and none are getting relief from the antidepressant drugs their doctors keep prescribing or the psychotherapy they’ve been receiving.
One of our country’s most distinguished psychiatrists and a pioneer in integrative medicine, Dr. Gordon believes that depression is not an end point, a disease over which we have no control. It is a sign that our lives are out of balance, that we’re stuck. It’s a wake-up call and the start of a journey that can help us become whole and happy, one that can change and transform our lives. Unstuck is a practical, easy-to-use guide explaining the seven stages of Dr. Gordon’s approach and the steps we can take to exert control over our own lives and find hope and happiness. Unstuck is designed for anyone who is suffering from depression, from mild subclinical depression (“the blues”) to its severest forms.
Dr. Gordon shows us how doctors and patients alike have come to depend on antidepressants, and how these drugs have disappointed so many. He then carefully links each of his seven stages to helpful suggestions for relieving depression’s symptoms. Using dramatic and inspiring examples from the patients he has worked with over the years, he explains the useful, mood-healing benefits of: food and nutritional supplements; Chinese medicine; movement, exercise, and dance; psychotherapy, meditation and guided imagery; and spiritual practice and prayer. He concludes each chapter with a carefully designed Prescription for Self-Care, guidelines to help each person play an active, effective role in their own healing. The result is Unstuck, an incredibly thoughtful, practical, and meditative guide to the difficult but rewarding journey out of depression. James
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Summary: The Most Helpful Book On Depression I've Ever Read
Comment: Having suffered from chronic depression for most of my adult life, I admit that I began reading this book with some doubt and trepidation. I have read many books on depression, including Peter Kramer's books and many others. I have been on several anti-depressants over the years, but found something lacking eventually with all of them. I have also tried counseling - got alot of insights, but still didn't feel quite right. Dr. Gordon's book hooked me from the very beginning...he has a very calm and considered approach to depression, and began the book with his very own experience with depression while in medical school. Finally - a psychiatrist who will admit that he too has suffered from this hideous malady!
Each chapter provides many meaningful and common-sense approaches to helping oneself through depressive episodes. I don't think Dr. Gordon is so much "anti-drug" as he is against what he perceives as the overuse and over-prescribing of these drugs as a panacea for all mood problems and negative life experiences, such as divorce or death of loved ones. I have already seen the value of some of his wonderful suggestions, especially the use of exercise and meditation in fighting depressive feelings and hopelessness. There is also a glossary at the back of the book with a list of numerous resources for the reader to use in trying to find support during down periods.
Thank you, Dr. Gordon, for providing this excellent book for those of us who know that the answer to our angst does not necessarily lie in a medicine bottle, but in also actively finding the resources and support to help heal ourselves.
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Summary: A Great Alternative to Drugs!
Comment: After being on Paxil for 12 years it is nice to find an alternative to the over prescribed antidepressants. I gained 80 lbs. over the past years, and I feel worse now that I look so bad. The whole body/mind/spirit approach is something that I can totally relate to.
This is a great tool for anyone with similar problems. I feel much better after getting off of the drugs and using a different approach.
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Summary: a model for a holistic approach
Comment: James Gordon, MD, opens his new book with the following bold statement: "Depression is not a disease, the end point of a pathological process...It's a wake-up call and the start of a journey that can help us become whole and happy, a journey that can change and transform our lives."
This may not sound like the typical perspective of a Western-trained psychiatrist, but Gordon is not your typical psychiatrist. He is a leader in the field of integrative medicine, having Instead, Gordon serves as kind of guide to the guides, using his professional experience and expertise to point out how the reader can develop a personal approach to healing. He does not pretend to be the world's leading expert on every healing path that he recommends readers explore. Instead, he provides an empowering and hopeful perspective that will help readers explore every aspect of their lives, and as many healing modalities as they find appealing.
Gordon takes seriously his responsibility to help readers make one-on-one connections with professionals who can offer advice tailored to the individual. The chapter on how to choose specific guides to work with is compelling and noticeably absent in other "self-help" books. He emphasizes that any guide, whether a physician or a spiritual teacher, should know how to create a safe haven, and should be welcoming, generous, and courageous. Gordon himself models this approach in how he talks to the reader and shares his own experience with depression.
There are few books that serve this role, and I think that it is an excellent model for the kind of work that all therapists and healthcare professionals do. Gordon's book illustrates how to be a guide that connects an individual to many healing paths, while emphasizing a holistic, Yogic perspective. For that reason, I recommend the book to anyone who hopes to guide individuals on a path of healing and compassionate self-awareness.
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Summary: great new book on depression
Comment: This is the most encouraging book on depression that I have read. Dr Gordon uses a multipronged approach including meditation, body movement, acupuncture, nutrition, positive thinking, ;aychotherapy, and utilizing all available support, both inner and outer. Many of his suggestions cost no money at all. But they do require an active choice and this is often hard for someone who is depressed. He makes this easy too, however, because a person can try one tool at a time, add one tool at a time. He draws on recent research and many years of experience. Try even just the deep belly breathing for a start; this in itself can calm the chattering mind.
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Summary: Stuck..Unstuck..that is the Question
Comment: I found this to be very helpful..and validating of my beliefs about so called depression..Life is a journey and we all want our journey to have meaning..with out that we question it all.
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