Dog medicine
Subtitle: how my dog saved me from myself
By: Julie Barton
Publisher: Think Piece Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: United States]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780986360787
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Depressed persons; Biography; Dogs; Therapeutic use; Pets; Human-animal relationships
Description: "At twenty-two, Julie Barton collapsed on her kitchen floor in Manhattan. She was one year out of college and severely depressed. Summoned by Julie's incoherent phone call, her mother raced from Ohio to New York and took her home. Psychiatrists, therapists and family tried to intervene, but nothing reached her until the day she decided to do one hopeful thing: adopt a Golden Retriever puppy she named Bunker. Dog Medicine captures in beautiful, elegiac language the anguish of depression, the slow path to recovery, and the astonishing way animals can heal even the most broken hearts and minds."--Amazon.com.