Undoing Depression: What Therapy Doesn't Teach You and Medication Can't Give You

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Berkley Books, 1999 - Psychology - 358 pages
For some people, depression has been a part of their experience for so long that they've begun to believe it's what they are. They become experts at "doing" depression--hiding it, working around it, even achieving great things (but at the price of great struggle, and little satisfaction). In this book, psychotherapist Richard O'Conner shows us how to "undo" depression, by replacing depressive patterns of thinking, relating, and behaving with a new and more effective set of skills. With a truly holistic approach that synthesizes the best of the many schools of thought about this painful disease, O'Conner offers new hope--and new life--for depressives.

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Why Dont We Have a Theory?
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Being Good at Depression
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Learning New Skills 5 Where to Start
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