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- Title: A Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness
- Author: Patty "Anna" Duke and Gloria Hochman
- Publisher/Year: Bantam Books; 1992
- ISBN: 0-553-07256-0
- Comments: Patty Duke's very personal account of her struggle with manic-
- depression. Duke writes every other chapter, while Hochman writes
- about the more clinical aspects of manic-depression.
-
- Title: The Broken Brain: The Biological Revolution in Psychiatry
- Author: Nancy Andreasen, M.D., Ph.D.
- Publisher/Year: Harper-Perennial; 1984
- ISBN: 0-060-91272-3
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- Title: Care of the Soul
- Author: Thomas Moore
- Publisher/Year: Harper-Perennial; 1992
- ISBN: 0-060-92224-9
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- Title: Cognitive Therapy & the Emotional Disorders
- Author: Aaron T. Beck, M.D.
- Publisher/Year: Penguin-Meridian; 1976
- ISBN: 0-452-00928-6
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- Title: Comfort for Depression
- Author: Janet Horwood
- Publisher/Year: Sheldon Press, London; 1988
- ISBN: 0-85969-554-9
- Comments: Sweet little book on getting through the day while depressed.
- Chapters such as "Pamper Your Body," "Putting your Money in its
- Place," and more. Help resources listed mostly in the U.K., but
- could be helpful to anyone needing comfort.
-
- Title: The Complete Guide to your Emotions and your Health
- Author: Emrika Padus
- Publisher/Year: Rodale Press; 1986
- ISBN: 0-87857-589-8
- Comments: This is a jem that is by the editors of Prevention
- Magazine.Information packed.
-
- Title: The Consumers Guide to Psychotherapy
- Author: Jack Engler, Ph.D. and Daniel Goleman, Ph.D.
- Publisher/Year: Fireside-Simon & Schuster; 1992
- ISBN: 0-671-77851-X
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- Title: Contagious Emotions: Staying Well When Your Loved One is Depressed.
- Authors: Ronald M. Podell with Porter Shimmer
- Publisher/Year: Pocket Books; 1992
- ISBN: 0-671-70239-4
- Comments: This is a book about how to help your partner get over their
- depression without fights and without you becoming hurt
- yourself. It teaches you how to avoid "fusion", relentless
- angry fights and conflicts with your spouse. It show how the
- family can help or hurt their loved ones recovery from
- depression.
-
- Title: Coping with Anxiety and Depression
- Author: Shirley TrickettPublisher/Year: Sheldon Press, London; 1989
- ISBN: 0-85969-592-1
- Comments: Book has a British feel, has great tips on relaxation and
- calming the mind. May over-simplify causes, but the
- suggestions are positive an helpful.
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- Title: Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
- Author: William Styron
- Publisher/Year: Vintage; 1990
- ISBN: 0-679-73639-5
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- Title: The Depression Book: Depression as an Opportunity for Spiritual
- Practice
- Author: Cheri Huber
- Publisher/Year: A Center for the Practice of Zen Buddhist Meditation 1991
- ISBN: 0-9614754-3-9
- Comments: An alternative understanding of working with depression rather than
- against it. Includes tips for meditation as one method to deal with
- depression. The back cover reads "This book suggests that hating and
- resisting depression -- or anything else we don't want -- actually
- maintains it, and that compassionate acceptance of our feelings and
- ourselves leads us to freedom."
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-
- Titled: Depressed? Here is a Way Out!
- Author: Hugh Smith, M.S.
- Publisher/Year: HarperCollins, UK, London; 1991
- ISBN: 0-00-627565-6
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- Title: The Depression Workbook
- Author: Mary Ellen Copeland
- Publisher/Year: New Haringer Publications; 1992
- ISBN: NA
- Comments: A detailed overview of the history, causes and treatment of mood
- disorders. Offers stey-by-step, self-help guidance for taking
- responsibility for your own wellness; using charts to track and\
- control your moods; find appropriate mental health professionals;\
- build a support system, increase your self-confidence and self-
- esteem; using relaxation, diet, exercise and full-spectrum light to
- stabilize your moods; and avoid coditions that can exacerbate you
- moods swings. "An essential tool to assist people struggling with
- depression and mania to gain insight to actively enter a lifelong
- journey of healing and wellness."
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- Title: Depression and its Treatment
- Author: John H. Greist, M.D. and James W. Jefferson, M.D.
- Publisher/Year: Warner Books; 1992
- ISBN: 0-446-60029-6
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- Title: Depression and the Social Environment: Research and Intervention
- with Neglected Populations
- Author: Philippe Cappeliez and Robert J.
- Publisher/Year: McGill-Queens University Pr., 1993
- ISBN: 0-7735-0960-7.
- Comments: Some of the chapter titles are as follows: Childhood Depression;
- Adolescent Depression; Suicidal Behaviour and Depresson in Young
- Adults; Gender, Psychosocial Factors, and Depression. Since this
- is a fairly scholarly book it may be kinda' heavy reading for
- some. Yet, maybe many of you might want to take a peek through.
-
- Title: The Essential Guide to Psychiatric Drugs
- Author: Jack Gorman
- Publisher/Year: St. Martin's Press; 1992
- ISBN: 0-312-06967-7
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- Title: Everything You Need to Know About Prozac
- Author: Jeffrey M. Jonas, M.D. and Ron Schaumburg
- Publisher/Year: Bantam; 1991
- ISBN: 0-553-29192-0
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- Title: Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
- Author: David Burns, M.D.
- Publisher/Year: Signet; 1980
- ISBN: 0-451-16776-7
- Comments: Self-help cognitive therapy techniques for depression, anxiety, etc.
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- Title: The Feeling Good Handbook
- Author: David D. Burns, M.D.
- Publisher/Year: Plume; 1989
- ISBN: 0-452-26174-0
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- Title: Fire in the Soul
- Author: Joan Borysenko, PH.D.
- Publisher/Year: Warner Books; 1993
- ISBN: 0-446-67015-4
- Comments: This resource focuses on healing, spirituality, and transforming our
- hurts/pains. It also has many resources at the end, including but
- not limited to: the men's movenent, women's spirituality,
- meditational & music tapes, and organizations & publications.
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- Title: Good Mood: The New Psychology of Overcoming Depression
- Author: Julian L. Simon
- Publisher/Year: Open Court Press; 1993.
- ISBN: 0-812-69097-4 (cloth) 0-812-69098-2 (paper)
-
- Title: The Good News About Depression
- Author: Mark S. Gold
- Publisher/Year: Bantam; 1986
- ISBN: 0-553-34511-7
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- Title: Happiness is a Choice
- Author: Barry Neil Kaufman
- Pulisher/Year: Fawcett; 1991
- ISBN: 0-449-90799-6
- Comments: Focuses on empowering your moment of change, the moment in which we
- can make self-acceptance, inner peace, joy and love immediately
- tangible with easy-to-use tools. Kaufman offers a gentle, yet
- powerful way to jump through a lengthy "process" of change right
- into action - to make ourselves happy any time, anywhere - TODAY!
- His book is based upon his years of teaching at the OPTION
- INSTITUTE. THe book contains six SHORTCUTS TO HAPPINESS, traits
- demonstrated by people who are successful in finding happiness.
- "Happiness is a Choice" is filled with inspiring examples of people
- who have taken this road to happiness! Many of them used the tools
- presented in this book to heal troubled relationships, to revitalize
- stagnant careers, to deal with sickness or stress, deal with
- paralyzing physical or emotional problems. Each of them learned and
- experienced the freedom that comes from making some simple no-pain
- choices!
-
- Title: How to Cope with Depression: A Complete Guide for You and Your Family
- Author: J. Raymond DePaulo, Jr. M.D. and Keith Russel Ablow, M.D.
- Publisher/Year: Ballentine Books; 1989
- ISBN: 0-449-21930-5
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- Title: How to Heal Depression
- Author: Harold H. Bloomfield, M.D. and Peter McWilliams
- Publisher/Year: Prelude Press; 1994
- ISBN: 0-931-58039-0
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- Title: How To Help Someone Who Is Depressed, Or Suicidal: Practical
- Suggestions From A Survivor"
- Author: John Cook
- Publisher/Year: Rubicon Press; 1994
- ISBN: 0-9630359-5-9
- Comments: "If someone in your life -- a loved-one, a friend -- is depressed
- or suicidal, this book is for you...and for them...
- I've been there: so deep in depression and despair I thought I'd
- never get out; so ready to kill myself that I'd developed detailed
- plans for exactly how I'd do it...
- This book is about how I got better...and how you may, too..."
- ---from the Introduction
-
- Title: Imbroglio: Rising to the Challenge of Borderline Personality Disorder
- Author: Janice M. Cauwels
- Publisher/Year: Norton; 1992
- ISBN: 0-393-03349-X
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- Title: Listening To Prozac
- Author: Peter D. Kramer, M.D.
- Publisher/Year: Viking; 1993
- ISBN: 0-670-84183-8
- Comments: A psychiatrist explores some of the implications of anti
- depressants, and especially of Prozac's unusual effects on the
- personality. Kramer also discusses the recent research on
- depression, as well as several other issues which seem linked to
- depression.
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- Title: Manic-Depressive Illness
- Author: Fredrick K. Goodwin, M.D., & Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D.
- Publisher/Year: Oxford; 1990
- ISBN: 0-195-03934-3
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- Title: Moodswings
- Author: Ronald R. Fieve, M.D.
- Publisher/Year: 1989
- ISBN: Bantam 0-553-27983-1 (paper), Morrow 0-688-08879-1 (cloth)
-
- Title: Munchausen's Pigtail/Psychotherapy and 'Reality': Essays &
- Lectures
- Author: Paul Walzlawick, Ph.D.
- Publisher/Year: Norton
- ISBN: 0-393-0285-9
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- Title: Nobody's Child
- Author: Marie Balter & Richard Katz
- Publisher/Year: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.; Reprint 1991
- ISBN: NA
-
- Title: On the Edge of Darkness: Coversations about Conquering
- Depression.
- Author: Kathy Cronkite
- Publisher/Year: Doubleday; 1994
- ISBN: 0-385-42194-X
-
- Title: Overcoming Depression
- Author: Demitri F. and Janice Papolos
- Publisher/Year: Harper-Perennial; 1992.
- ISBN: 0-060-96594-0 (paper)
- Comments: Good basic text on the various aspects of depression and
- manic/depression. Considered by some to be a "classic" in the field.
-
- Title: Practical Handbook of Psychopharmacology: A Clinician's Guide
- Authors: Edward A. Workman, EdD ,MD & Frank F. Tellian, MD
- Publisher/Year: CRC Press, Inc.; 1994
- ISBN:
- Comments: Unique features: Handbook format, drug therapy practice guidelines
- and flowcharts, based on cutting edge clinical research, fits in a
- coat pocket, rapid access to critical information.
-
- Title: A Primer of Drug Action: A Concise, Nontechnical Guide to the Actions,
- Uses and Side Effects of Psychoactive Drugs"
- Author: Robert M. Julien
- Publisher/Year: W.H. Freeman; 1992 6th ed.
- ISBM: 0-716-72261-5
-
- Title: Prozac: Questions and Answers for Patients, Families and Physicians
- Author: Dr. Ronald R. Fieve, M.D.
- Publisher/Year: Avon; 1993
- ISBN: 0-387-77718-5
-
- Title: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
- Author: Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Publisher/Year: Houghton Mifflin Company; 1994
- ISBN: 0-395-68093-x
- Comments: Biography. A great book, easily readable. I've felt the same
- experiences and had the same questions and conclusions in my mind as
- the young author, Wurtzel. This is an important, and timely book,
- not just for twentynothings. If you find that people cannot
- understand your depression, maybe you should hand them this book to
- read.
-
- Title: Psychiatric Disabilities, Employment, and the Americans with
- Disabilities Act
- Author: Office of Technology Assessment
- Publisher/Year: Office of Technology Assessment, March 1994
- ISBN: NA
- Comments: This 136 page book gives a comprehensive overview of the employment
- aspects of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). It outlines
- the role of various government agencies in helping people with
- psychiatric disabilities in the work place. The limitations of the
- ADA are discussed as well as other relevant laws. References to
- journal articles are also helpful to those who want to learn more.
- To order, request publication S/N 052-003-01366-5 and send $8.50 for
- each copy to: New Orders, Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box
- 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954. Make checks payable to the
- Superintendent of Documents. They also accept VISA or MasterCard.
- Phone order (202) 783-3238 Fax order (202) 512-2250.
-
- Title: Questions and Answers about Depression and its Treatment
- Author: Dr. Ivan Goldberg
- Publisher/Year: The Charles Press; 1993.
- ISBN: ISBN 0-914783-68-8
- Comments: A 112 page FAQ on depression.
-
- Title: Receptors
- Author: Richard M. Restak, M.D.
- Publisher/Year: Bantam Books, NY; 1994
- ISBN: NA
- Comments: "The author is an M.D. who also suffers from depression. He's not
- anti-pill nor does he say that medications will solve everything. He
- writes about how our neurological receptors work and effect how we
- feel. His book is detailed, but not too technical that you can't
- understand what he's saying. He gives a history of how the different
- receptors were discovered. He also talks about how alcohol, caffeine,
- nicotine, heroin, cocaine, and prescription drugs effect us. One
- chapter is about how "lithium" was discovered and used to treat
- people with manic depression." - itpgutrz@dale.ucdavis.edu
-
- Title: From Sad to Glad
- Author: Nathan S. Kline, M.D.
- Publisher/Year: Ballantine Books.; 1991 <20th printing>
- ISBN: 0-345-34252-6
- Comments: Out of date pharmacologically "but excellent otherwise." Kline says:
- "Psychiatry has labored too long under the delusion that every
- emotional malfunction requires an endless talking out of everything
- the patient ever experienced."
-
- Title: Seasons of the Mind
- Author: Norman Rosenthal, M.D.
- Publisher/Year: NA
- ISBN: NA
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- Title: Suicide: The Forever Decision
- Author: Paul G. Quinnet
- Publisher/Year: Continuum Publishing Company/1987
- ISBN: 0-8264-0391-3
- Comments: This is without a doubt the best book I've seen on suicide and it's
- prevention. This is not one of those books that just said that life
- is worth it. It has chapters on loneliness, stress, hopelessness and
- what you can do about them. In some places I felt like he was
- writing just to me. - Mary Susan Freeman
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-
- Title: Talking Back to Prozac
- Author: Peter Breggin
- Publisher/Year: St. Martins Press; 1994
- ISBN: 0-312-11486-9
-
- Title: To Love is to Be Happy With
- Author: Barry Neil Kaufman
- Publisher/Year: Fawcett; 1977
- ISBN: 0-449-21119-3
- Comments: This book details the principles and applications of "The Option
- Process." It's a manual for anyone who wants a happier, more loving
- and life-affirming way of living!! "The Option Process" is based on
- the attitude that to love is to be happy with (either yourself or
- someone else). The process (which uses a very simple, beautiful,
- accepting and non-judgmental dialogue method/attitude) is an
- incredible new way to discard self-defeating beliefs and clarify
- doubts that have inhibited our personal our professional success and
- happiness. This book contains actual dialogues and helps to
- illustrate the awesome power this process has for helping someone
- help themselves to become happier.
-
- Title: Touched with Fire: Manic-depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperment
- Author: Kay Jamison
- Publisher/Year: 1993
- ISBN: 0-0291-6030-8 (cloth) 0-060-96594-0 (paper)
- Coments: A look at a number of 19th century poets, writers, and composers who
- were Bipolar. Comment by Dr. James D. Watson, Director of Cold Spring
- Harbor Laboratory, Novel laureate and author of The Double Helix:
- "An emphatic analysis of the creativity that emerges from a little
- madness and the horror from too much."
-
- Title: Toxic Psychiatry: Why Therapy, Empathy, and Love Must Replace Drugs,
- Eletroshock, and the Biochemical Theories of the "New Psychiatry."
- Author: Peter Breggin
- Publisher/Year: St. Martin's Press; 1991
- ISBN: 0-312-05975-2
-
- Title: Understanding Depression
- Author: Donald Klein, M.D., and Paul Wender, M.D. (founders of the
- National Assn. for Depressive Illness)
- Publisher/Year: Oxford; 1993
- ISBN: 0-195-08669-4
- Comments: Melvin Sabshin, M.D., Medical Director, American Psychiatric Assn.
- writes: "A very good source of information that will be
- extraordinarily useful to patients and their families."
-
- Title: Waking Up Alive: The Descent, the Suicide Attempt, and the
- Return to life.
- Author: Richard A. Heckler, Ph.D.
- ISBN: 0-399-13945-1
- Comments: It's not about Depression per-se, but the byproduct. This is the
- very 1st one about suicide that tells how it actually is inside of
- people.
-
- Title: We Heard the Angels of Madness: One Family's Struggle with Manic
- Depresion
- Author: Diane and Lisa Berger
- ISBN: 0-688-09178-4
- Comments: Forwarded by Alxeander Vuckovic, M.D. It was written by a mother who
- had a son stricken by manic-depression at 19 and the rough road they
- walked to get him the help he needed. Very heartfelt and well
- written.
-
- Title: The Way Up From Down
- Author: Priscilla Slagle, M.D.
- Publisher/Year: NA
- ISBN: 0-312-92914-5
- Comments: It stresses a nutritional approach heavy on the ammino acid
- tyrosine, and a complete vitamin supplement program.
-
- Title: What to do During Depression: A Reason to Live
- Author: Melody Beattie (General Editor).
- Publisher/Year: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.; 1992.
- ISBN: 0-8423-0988-8
- Comments: This is a book that explores reasons to live and reasons not to
- commit suicide. It also contains suggestions for life-affirming
- actions people can take to help themselves get through those times
- when they're struggling to find a reason to live.
-
- Title: What You Need to Know About Psychiatric Drugs
- Author: Stuart C. Yudofsky,M.D.; Robert E. Hales,M.D.; and Tom
- Ferguson,M.D.
- Pubisher/Year: Ballantine; 1991
- ISBN: 0-345-37334-0
-
- Title: When Acceptance Is Denial: A Handbook for People Who Are
- Confused About Confusion
- Author: Gil Eriksen, MSW, LCSW, CAP
- Publisher: Gil Eriksen Communications, Inc.
- ISBN: 0-9638868-7-8
- Comments: Author is a psychotherapist in Ft. Lauderdale; book is full of very
- basic and useful information for clear thinking, recognizing truth,
- making decisions that work. Not in all bookstores, but they can
- obtain it through distributors. Publisher also takes mail
- orders: 399 SE 18th Ct, Ft. Lauderdale FL 33316.
-
- Title: When am I Going to Be Happy?
- Author: Penelope Russianoff, Ph.D.
- Publisher/Year: Bantam; 1989
- ISBN: 0-553-28215-8
-
- Title: When Someone You Love Has A Mental Illness
- Author: Rebecca Woolis, M.F.C.C.
- Publisher/Year: Tarcher/Perigee (Putnam Publishing Group); 1992
- ISBN: NA
-
- Title: When the Blues Won't Go Away
- Author: Robert Hirschfeld, M.D.
- Publisher/Year: 1991
- ISBN: 0-025-51825-9
- Comments: Concerns new approaches to Dysthymic Disorder and other forms of
- chronic low-grade depression.
-
- Title: Winter Blues: Seasonal Affective Disorder and How to Overcome it.
- Author: Norman Rosenthal, M.D.
- Publisher/Year: The Guilfold Press; 1993
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- Title: Women who Hurt Themselves: A Book of Hope & Understanding
- Author: Dusty Miller, ED.D
- Publisher/Year: Basic Books; 1994
- ISBN: 0-465-09220-9
- Comments: The primary focus for this book is for women & women's healing from
- past traumas, including depressions & self-injurious behaviors.
- Bibliographical references and index are included. Very Positive
- resource!
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-
- Title: You Are Not Alone
- Author: Julia Thorne with Larry Rothstein
- Publisher/Year: Harper Collins; 1993
- ISBN: 0-060-96977-6
- Comments: The writings of depressives, for both depressives and those who need
- to understand them. Shervert Frazier, M.D., former director of the
- National Institues of Mental Health says: "A ground breaking book
- that...reveals the impact of depression on the lives of everyday
- people. This little book is must reading for sufferers, those
- associated with depression, and mental health professionals"
-
- Title: You Mean I Don't Have To Feel This Way?
- Author: Collette Dowling
- Publisher/Year: Bantam; 1993
- ISBN: 0-553-37169-X
- Comments: Jeffrey M. Jonas, M.D. writes: "An important book that is filled
- with information helpful to sufferers of mood and eating disorders
- and other illnesses. It should be read not only by lay people but
- also by professionals who deal with these illnesses."
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