Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Depression: A New Approach to Preventing Relapse |
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 | As this book is aimed at professionals I was very weary of buying it. There is always the fear that such books will pay too much heed to genetics and so become very depressing. Fortunately, the authors tend to believe that environment, upbringing, and the attitudes we hold are the main triggers of depression and this can be overcome using cognitive behavour therapy (CBT). As an example of their optimism compare the two views here, one from mainstream psychiatry the other from the authors of the above book. Biopsychiatry tends to believe that everytime a depression strikes, the brain becomes more damaged and therfore more vulnerable to depression ( if this is true then a good dose of fish oil - best taken as pure EPA - will put it right, but a lot of psychiatrists won't tell you that). The authours of this book have an alternative view: when depression strikes we learn how to think depressively, and this learned behaviour, plus the memories of our previous depression, can mean we ... read more.
Written by Zindel V. Segal, J. Mark G. Williams and John D. Teasdale.
Published 17 January 2002.
Published by Guilford Press.
rrp £30.50.
351 pages Hardcover.
ISBN: 1572307064
ISBN-13: 9781572307063 | |
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