OVERCOMING DEPRESSION A practical self-help guide to prevention and treatment

• Main Author: Gillett, Richard Dr (Author)
• Corporate Author: British Holistic Medical Association
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Dorling Kindersley 1987
• Subjects: Bipolar disorder; Bipolar disorder > Popular works; Depressive disorder
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• Item Description: At head of title: The British Holistic Medical Association
• Physical Description: 224 pages illustrations 21 cm
• Bibliography: Includes index
• ISBN: 0863181619

Overcoming Depression is an accessible enlightening and constructive guide to a very widespread problem. The book looks at all different levels of depression describes how a person's past history and personality as well as physical factors can affect their mental state and then looks at ways of overcoming depression from simple-help methods to forms of psychotherapy and physical treatments. The treatments are assessed to help the reader find the right therapists. The final section discusses way of preventing a recurrence. Richard Gillett MA MB BCh MRCPsych trained at Cambridge and the University College Hospital London where he became senior registrar in psychiatry.