Depression Books

great book, if you want to know what amino acid's do and how they can help you then this is a great book for you. it is only 68 pages but it is very informative. i know how much, how often and with what other supplement it should be taken with. i have already purchased many amino's on what this book recommends for my problems and issues. i have been recommending it to others and am planning on getting the more up to date version that is 244 pages long. i also purchased the thorson's guide to amino acid's which is good but healing with amino acids in my opinion is a better book because it's shorter and more to the point.

(as per my review of 'Anger and forgiveness' same author...) I tracked down this book after reading anger and forgiveness then googling 'dysfunctional father' and finding Dr Raymond Richmonds other , more relegious site 'chastitySF.com'.
you can read the book on the web pages (leave a donation if you got something from it)but i reccomend buying and owning the book.
Basically it is a very clear explaination of how emotional pain is caused, how we misunderstand it and how that can stop us from healing ourselves (which in turn has an impact on all around us and thus our lives) if you have such issuse i fully reccomend this mans very honest work. Dr Richmond is religeous (I am not conventionaly, i find it useful to see ideas like 'god' and 'christ' with 'the universe' or humanity etc) but he does not blindly impose or indoctrinate, he just makes a tremendous amount of logical, useful analaysis and gives very useful direction.

The book saved me lots of time by streamlining the search process. It is well organized and easy to understand.

Sutton's biography is an incredible and incredibly honest book by a celebrity Public Relations man who is incredible and incredibly honest himself. It is written in a post-modern style--in other words, some chapters are several pages long and cover many thoughts, others are half a page and cover maybe one person, idea or moment in time. So you never know what to expect--except for honesty in every word written by a fine, reborn human being indeed. Sutton has held the hands of his children through a painful divorce and guided the careers of some of Hollywood's elite, but in his battle with severe depression he had to depend upon his two sons, his siblings, his friend-of-an-ex-wife, and the superstar clients and now friends as well as old teachers and employers, meditation techniques, sports and the kindness of strangers. This book resonates well with this old college professor and university PR man who, like Sutton, refuses to sell his soul to the devil in order to do my jobs. One of the best books in years. I hope to get the author to autograph it someday.

This is the stories of how extremely skilled investigators solve one of the most difficult crimes Arson. This book takes you into the temntaments and streets with the investigators of the Fire Department of New York's Arson Buearu. This collection of true stories details the often monotonus and sometimes life threatening cases that the men and women have solved, and also examines the tradegy that arson can wrought on familes of the victims and the fire fighters them selves. A don't miss for anybody interested in fire investigations.

I liked the idea of being positive by listening to positive tapes before going to sleep. I had known that listening to tapes under your pillow was perhaps effective for some psychological processes like learning. I had seen this in movies and TV shows.But this book showed me real use of listening that really improved my mood.

Other suggestions for beating depression were good too. And there were so many I think anyone almost would find a cure in these pages.

On first glance, this looked like a near copy of the green Rouland & Rouland Heywood Wakefield book. It does not have the history of Heywood Wakefield like the green R&R HW book, which makes that book also worth owning. It is the same size as the green R&R HW book and includes many of the same catalog photos. This contains some nice original color catalog photos that were not in the green R&R HW book.

This is the ONLY Heywood Wakefield book with accurate prices for mint and refinished pieces. The green R&R HW book is way off and Harris Gertz's Heywood Wakefield book contains values for furniture found in well used condition. Harris's book has the best photos of Heywood Wakefield furniture.

Buy the books. Buy the furniture. You'll love it.

My parents, who grew up as very poor children in the teeth of the Great Depression, held FDR in high regard. However, they did not share in the general worship of FDR by some of their friends. For my parents' friends FDR was more than a President, even more than a Hero. He was a kind of savior to them who inspired them, provided work to their fathers, and provided food that they were often ashamed to eat. My parents recognized the leadership FDR showed, and were grateful for some of the programs, but the idea that the government could provide everything for everybody seemed absurd to them.

As I grew up and read and began formulating my own ideas, I began to question the orthodox view of FDR held of these friends. I remember at one gathering of my parents' friends, a couple of us teenagers brought up some views that questioned the view of FDR as the savior of the nation. Wow, what a reaction! (Again, not from my parents, but their friends.) Later in life I met families for whom FDR was an unalloyed devil and if you had anything remotely positive to say about FDR it generated a similarly explosive reaction. Interesting stuff.

Regardless of your views of FDR, there is no question that he was the most influential president of the 20th century, even more than Reagan whose dominance seems so great because he was more recent. This very interesting volume provides a couple of hundred photographs of FDR from his boyhood through his funeral. I enjoyed the way the book did not center on his three and a part terms as president, but gave us many photographs that are not commonly seen. It is the private man we see here even more than the man in office (though there are plenty of those, too). They are printed in large format and allow the reader to linger over them and notice very interesting detail.

As usual in this fine series from Turner Publishing, the captions add valuable information about the photograph and the few pages of information that form chapter headings add just enough helpful information without getting in the way of the photographs.

This is an especially nice addition to the library of anyone interested in FDR, American presidents, or general American history.

Reviewed by Craig Matteson, Ann Arbor, MI

I do believe that this book takes a whole new dimension by the fact that the author... both LIVED and lived THROUGH a depression AND is... a psychologist. He therefore has the academic knowledge as well as the life experience to express the "Holiday of Darkness".

Another interesting fact... is that he was a "stable, athletic man, at the height of his career" when depression struck. So I believe it removes the stigma or prejudices that people may sometimes have on people that come to suffer from depression.

It is not only an account; chapters cover treatment and treatment alternatives and finishes off with a very encouraging chapter "Where do we go from here".. that hints that there IS light after darkness.. Depression IS treateable! "eminently treatable" to quote the author!

I grew up in Newtonbrook and was delighted that someone else had fond memories too. I have made many enquiries about the area when I have returned for a visit, but it would appear there are very few who knew it as "we" knew it.