num_pages: 448
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
language: English
title: Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression
publisher: Penguin Press