Depression Books

Discouragement is not a major psychological condition, yet few people would not admit to experiencing it from time to time. In this small volume, counselor and spiritual director Kathleen Fischer discusses several different causes for discouragement, offers both hope and suggestions for resolution, and includes well-chosen Scripture readings or prayers. A deceptively simple and refreshing book, one to return to again and again.

At last a book that meets the needs and provides an underlying hand to lift a depressive up. In the literary world the topic of depression is often overlooked or ignored. It is refreshing to find a book that not only acknowledges the existence of depression but addresses the problems and struggles faced by everyone enduring depression and their support system. This book is a must for all depressives. It can surely help you focus on positive ideas. The author knows where you're illness is.

Yes, I will give you the answer. I did fall in love with MY LIFE! MY OWN LIFE! AND MYSELF!

Truly for me "Falling In Love With Your Life" has been life transforming. For the better of course! I was in love with the IDEA of my life, and the life of everyone else! Comparing, paying attention to whatever I thought it was missing. And this book through interesting, simple and fun exercises opened up a door to be in contact with myself, deep within, and by doing that I got in contact with MY infinite possibilities. Using a simple and humoristic language you expand the vision of your life and have the oportunity to honor you as who you really are.
After the course, I have a better understanding of who I am, what my life looks like, where I want to be and what to do to get there! On top of that It made me laugh a lot!

Thank you ALicia, for such a brilliant work
Fe Bailey,
Quantum Touch, Aromatherapy, Natural Vision Improvement.
San Francisco, USA.
www.febailey.com

I purchased this book looking for photographs by John Collier, Jr., and found Russell Lee and Jack Delano, too. I absolutely must have more of their work and will continue to look. Looking back, it seems that in the 1960s, journalism photography was defined by action-packed scenes from the Vietnam War, but these photos of the 1930s and '40s are more a document of how people lived in these adobe villages of New Mexico, particularly around Taos, (but also the trainyards of Albuquerque, and Anglo villages like Pie Town). I had sought out Collier's photos because of their still-life art quality--and found more. All these photos are quiet; they are haunted, somber, and play in the imagination long after the book is placed back on the shelf. These photos are like objects of contemplation, meditations on a vanished way of life preserved forever on film, the faces of women and men, boys and girls captured for posterity.

Truly, I believe that the people in these photos were not poor--as we think of the Depression; they were rich in culture and family connection, rootedness to their villages. My favorite Collier photo is "Congregation leaving the church after mass, Trampas, New Mexico, 1943." The women are in their Sunday best clothing ("American" style), vulnerable to the wind and snow, but faithful to their customs and way of life, while the buildings all around are "quaint" adobe. The haunted quality of these b & w photos is similar to that of Ansel Adams's, "Moonrise, Hernandez, 1941"--depicting a Hispano village about to change forever because of World War II and the out-migration of villagers. Thank you forever to everyone involved with preserving these photos; soulful gratitude to the long-gone photographers.

In seeing the barn-burning scene in "As I Lay Dying" as representing "the impulse toward revolution" and a section of Jason's narrative in "The Sound and the Fury" as indicating capitalism standing triumphant after a period beginning about 1890 "when the expanding mercantile economy with an industrial base substantially redefined America's socioeconomic order," Atkinson discloses how Faulkner can be read as a "Depression writer who, in keeping with the times, found his own means of radical and revolutionary expression." Overall, "Faulkner gave to Depression readers an order of things in which totalizing concepts of unity, organic wholeness, and harmony exist not as achievable ends but rather as tenuous constructs" always vulnerable to the natural human desire to pursue individual liberty in multifarious ways. This reading of Faulkner is not an alternative to the generally accepted one of Faulkner as dealing mainly with the rural culture, class and personal relationships, and the psychodynamics peculiar to the latter 1800's and early 1900's South, but it expands it considerably. Rather than seen only as regional inhabitants suffering from their incapacity to accept defeat and in often half-crazed ways trying to maintain a semblance of the traditional social structure, Faulkner's Southern characters can be seen as well as representative Americans dealing with economic hardships and uncertainties of the Depression and struggling with political questions and temptations relating to an authoritarian regime, forms of socialism, and the budding new order offered by Roosevelt. Faulkner's place in the literary politics of his time, a topic often passed by in critical work to unravel the complexities of his characters and his style, is also dealt with in developing how his work reflects the conditions and mentality of his time. Atkinson--who teaches at Augusta State U. in Georgia--sheds light on this broader view of this major American author active in the mid 1900s by focusing on individual characters, incidents, and circumstances in his novels.

An immortal classic.No finer theoretical or literary achievement can be imagined within Art History.

This book should be required reading for any middle class American.Martin Larson takes us throught the creation of the banking cartel called the Federal Reserve System. Larson shows how the Fed manipuates interest rates and artificially creates depressions and resessions. He shows howthe printing of worthless fiat(paper)money destroys the credit, and true value of a nation.Larson goes through the arguements for and against fiat money and shows how a currency based on metals( gold, silver)is the only true constitutional money. With quotes and a chapter on Thomas Jefferson we see how the Third president was a prophet when it came to debt, inflation and banks. A great buy.

this book helped me understand the many facets of my personality and how to take accountability for myself.

At last a book that spells out the way mental health should be defined: not by the absence of particular pathological symptoms alone but when the whole person, biologically, socially, cognitively, and spiritually is integrated into a life-affirming homeostasis and "feeling terrific." This book goes beyond the idea of simply alleviating the symptoms of depression. This is an example of real mental health promotion which the medical establishment in the past has been slow to embrace. As the book points out, the mental heath field has been too focused on its achievements of eliminating depression when it occurs. There are greater rewards for being focused, instead, on preventing depression from re-occuring.

FEELING TERRIFIC spells out the ways in which a person can assess their own moods and the reasons for them occuring at particular times. It encourages the person suffering from depression to be an active participant in learning how to successfully regulate their own moods. Shows how a person can break old cycles of thinking and behavior, and, with a little practice, interject healthier ones. Wonderful for those professionals who will be able to expand their own ideas of what is possible and a boon for those struggling with depression as well. Well done. A. B. Curtiss, author of BRAINSWITCH OUT OF DEPRESSION: BREAK THE CYCLE OF DESPAIR and DEPRESSION IS A CHOICE: WINNING THE BATTLE WITHOUT DRUGS.

I thought this was a strong message for women to realize that they have to empower themselves through negative situations in life to achieve the success that they want. It is a very important message for strong girls. The book also emphasizes the importance of being free to express one's self through writing. Writing can help bring out your true feelings; through which one can write how they want to deal with their feelings. Kim suggests to expose all feelings, obstacles, things that completely brought you down and learn how to move forward! Learn to empower yourself to where you want to be in life. Book had an impact on me and I would def recommend to my friends.