Includes the CD: A mindful approach to recovery.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSION.
1: The experience of depression.
2: What causes depression.

PART TWO: RECOVERING FROM DEPRESSION.
3: Taking action to relieve your mood.
4: Catching your thoughts.
5: Changing your self-image.
6: Putting it all together: Tom's story.
7: Supporting a person who is depressed.

PART THREE: LIVING WITH YOURSELF.
8: How "mindfulness" can support recovery.
9: Learning to be mindful.
10: Relating mindfully to your body.
11: Relating mindfully to your emotions.
12: Relating mindfully to your thoughts.
13: Living mindfully.

POSTSCRIPT: BEYOND DEPRESSION

Recommended as part of the Books on Prescription Scheme by Irish Psychologists and GPs

This book has been written for all who suffer from depression and for those who are close to the depressed person, be they partner, child or friend.

The effort to alleviate the pain of depression in a loved one inevitably fails and the most well-intentioned interventions of friends and spouses can leave all concerned feeling helpless and alienated.

While intended primarily as a guide to recovery for the sufferer, it is also written with the relatives and friends of the sufferer in mind in the hope that it can make sense of what can be a difficult problem to grasp from the ‘outside’. Understanding of the problem by all who are affected can act as a bridge between people who feel isolated by depression and those who care about them.

Part One explains what happens when someone gets depressed and what kinds of experience cause depression. Part Two focuses on a step by step recovery plan to overcoming depression and Part Three considers what has been learned in the past ten years about staying well and preventing relapse.