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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 616.8527 EAN: 9781594201660 ISBN: 1594201668 Label: Penguin Press HC, The Manufacturer: Penguin Press HC, The Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 448 Publication Date: June 12, 2008 Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The Studio: Penguin Press HC, The Editorial Review: Product Description: A groundbreaking, inspiring, and practical guide to healing depression without the use of antidepressants, from world-renowned, Harvard trained psychiatrist Dr. James S. Gordon Each year, as many as twenty million Americans are diagnosed with clinical depression. Tens of millions more have low energy or feel unhappy and dissatisfied with their lives. And each year, American doctors write 189 million prescriptions for antidepressant drugs for these people. Dr. James Gordon, a Harvard Medical School-educated psychiatrist who founded and directs The Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, D.C., has been helping his patients find their way out of the darkness of depression for the past forty years. He has worked with everyone from high-powered Washington politicians to Hurricane Katrina victims, from overstressed doctors, lawyers, and stay-at-home moms to orphans from war-ravaged Kosovo and Gaza. Each one of Dr. Gordons patients is unique, but all suffer from some level of depression, and none are getting relief from the antidepressant drugs their doctors keep prescribing or the psychotherapy theyve been receiving. One of our countrys most distinguished psychiatrists and a pioneer in integrative medicine, Dr. Gordon believes that depression is not an end point, a disease over which we have no control. It is a sign that our lives are out of balance, that were stuck. Its a wake-up call and the start of a journey that can help us become whole and happy, one that can change and transform our lives. Unstuck is a practical, easy-to-use guide explaining the seven stages of Dr. Gordons approach and the steps we can take to exert control over our own lives and find hope and happiness. Unstuck is designed for anyone who is suffering from depression, from mild subclinical depression (the blues) to its severest forms. Dr. Gordon shows us how doctors and patients alike have come to depend on antidepressants, and how these drugs have disappointed so many. He then carefully links each of his seven stages to helpful suggestions for relieving depressions symptoms. Using dramatic and inspiring examples from the patients he has worked with over the years, he explains the useful, mood-healing benefits of: food and nutritional supplements; Chinese medicine; movement, exercise, and dance; psychotherapy, meditation and guided imagery; and spiritual practice and prayer. He concludes each chapter with a carefully designed Prescription for Self-Care, guidelines to help each person play an active, effective role in their own healing. The result is Unstuck, an incredibly thoughtful, practical, and meditative guide to the difficult but rewarding journey out of depression. James Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The organic solurion to depressionJim Gordon's Unstuck is the first book I know of that gives away the store. To gain this insight in the past would have cost you years of therapy, drug testing and miserable years of life. In this book you get all of it summarized and explained in depth. By reading this book you can help yourself and avoid all the wasted time and visits to pill pushers. Dr. Gordon is a genius and has shaken the industry that has grown around depression treatment to its roots. His writing is clear and careful ... Read More Rating: - The Most Helpful Book On Depression I've Ever ReadHaving suffered from chronic depression for most of my adult life, I admit that I began reading this book with some doubt and trepidation. I have read many books on depression, including Peter Kramer's books and many others. I have been on several anti-depressants over the years, but found something lacking eventually with all of them. I have also tried counseling - got alot of insights, but still didn't feel quite right. Dr. Gordon's book hooked me from the very beginning...he has a very calm and ... Read More Rating: - A Great Alternative to Drugs!After being on Paxil for 12 years it is nice to find an alternative to the over prescribed antidepressants. I gained 80 lbs. over the past years, and I feel worse now that I look so bad. The whole body/mind/spirit approach is something that I can totally relate to. This is a great tool for anyone with similar problems. I feel much better after getting off of the drugs and using a different approach. Rating: - a model for a holistic approachJames Gordon, MD, opens his new book with the following bold statement: "Depression is not a disease, the end point of a pathological process...It's a wake-up call and the start of a journey that can help us become whole and happy, a journey that can change and transform our lives." This may not sound like the typical perspective of a Western-trained psychiatrist, but Gordon is not your typical psychiatrist. He is a leader in the field of integrative medicine, having Instead, Gordon serves as kind ... Read More Rating: - great new book on depressionThis is the most encouraging book on depression that I have read. Dr Gordon uses a multipronged approach including meditation, body movement, acupuncture, nutrition, positive thinking, ;aychotherapy, and utilizing all available support, both inner and outer. Many of his suggestions cost no money at all. But they do require an active choice and this is often hard for someone who is depressed. He makes this easy too, however, because a person can try one tool at a time, add one tool at a time. He draws on ... Read More |
