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MOOD DISORDERS BOOK LIST
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The list is exceeds 110 books, and it's growing all the time. Certainly, 
not all the books are entirely about mood disorders, but as with many 
people in this global self-help community, they are dealing with more 
than 
one issue too. It's taken well over a year to update this list for 
various 
reasons: Lately it's been about trying to figure out how to export all 
these books from my Claris FileMaker Pro database. Thanks to a little 
help 
from Claris, we've finally figured it out. (God, it was easy, once I 
understood how.)

This list is only possible with your help, so scan your book shelves, 
browse through your local library or book store, bug your friends, and 
send in any books you don't find on this list, or make corrections and 
additions. (I don't have as complete information on as many books I'd 
like.) The only reason these books are on this list is because someone 
has 
submitted them.

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about these books.

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BOOK LIST 
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Genre: Biographical
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Title: A Brilliant Madness:  Living with Manic Depressive Illness
Author: Patty Duke (Anna Pearce) and Gloria Hochman
Publisher: Bantam Books, 1992
ISBN: 0-553-07256-0
Comments: Patty Duke's very personal account of her struggle with 
manic-depression. Duke writes every other chapter, while Hochman writes 
about the more clinical aspects of manic-depression.

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Title: A Season in Hell
Author: Percy Knauth
Publisher: Harper and Row, 1975
Comments: Hard to come by.

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Title: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Author: Jamison, Kay Redfield
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995
ISBN: 0-679-44374-6
Comments: Dr. Jamison's personal testimony of her own struggle with 
manic-depressive illness since adolescence, and how it has shaped her 
life. She shows tremendous courage in writing the book at all, for the 
stigma attached to all mental illness, including manic-depressive illness 
is very real. Since she herself is a professor psychiatry, and a 
world-class authority on manic-depression, this book represents a genuine 
"coming out of the closet", so to speak.

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Title: Beast (The): A Reckoning with Depression
Author: Tracy Thompson
Publisher: Putnma and Sons, 1995
Comments: Thompson is a reporter, and has appeared on TV regarding her 
battles with depression.

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Title: Beyond the Darkness: My Near-Death Journey to the Edge of Hell and 
Back
Author: Angie Fenimore
Publisher: , 1995
Comments: An autobiography of a suicide. An alternative to the "embraced 
by the light" journeys so well documented in many other books. Excerpt: 
"I 
began to fear that if people didn't hear the other side of the near-death 
experience, they might interpret these marvelous accounts to mean that 
suicide could bring release from their problems. As I learned, nothing 
could be further from the truth."

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Title: Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me
Author: Marlon Brando, with Robert Lindsey
Publisher: Random House, NY,, 1994
ISBN: 0-679-4103-9
Comments: In Brando's own words, a record of his own struggle with 
emotions including depression, rage, anxiety. 

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Title: Breaking the Silence
Author: Marriette Hartley
Comments: About the actresses struggles with coming to terms with the 
suicide of her father and her advocacy work in preventing suicide.

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Title: Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke
Author: Patty Duke (Anna Pearce) (with Kenneth Duran)
Publisher: Bantam Books, 1987
ISBN: 0-553-05209-9
Comments: Patty Duke's autobiography.

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Title: Darkness Visible:  A Memoir of Madness
Author: William Styron
Publisher: Vintage, 1990
ISBN: 0-679-73639-5
Comments: Good, but not great, heavy writing style with not much info. 
--Barbara Zak, zakba@UMDNJ.EDU

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Title: Frost and Flower: My Life with Manic Depression
Author: Kaye Gibbons
Publisher: Wisteria Press, Atlanta, 1995
Comments: Limited edition. Writer's struggle with manic depression.

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Title: Holiday of Darkness: A Psychologist's Personal Journey Out of His 
Depression
Author: Norman S. Elder
Publisher: Wiley, 1982
Comments: This is a bit old, and hard to come by, but written by a 
psychologist about his depression.  Interesting, but it seemed to me that 
his depression was on the mild side. --Barbara Zak, zakba@UMDNJ.EDU

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Title: Hope and Recovery: A Mother-Daughter Story about Anorexia Nervosa, 
Bulimia, and Manic Depression
Author: Emma Lou Thayne and Becky Thayne Markosian
Publisher: Franklin Watts Inc., NY, 1992
ISBN: 0-531-11140-7
Comments: A cowritten story of a young woman's struggle with these 
illnesses, and how she came out the other side.

Title: Imbroglio:  Rising to the Challenge of Borderline Personality 
Disorder
Author: Janice M.  Cauwels
Publisher: Norton, 1992
ISBN: 0-393-03349-X

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Title: On the Edge of Darkness:  Coversations about Conquering Depression.
Author: Kathy Cronkite
Publisher: Doubleday, 1994
ISBN: 0-385-42194-X
Comments: Written by Walter Cronkites daughter. Features a variety of 
personal stories by herself , other celebrities, and famous people about 
their experiences with depression.

Title: Prozac Nation:  Young and Depressed in America
Author: Elizabeth Wurtzel
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994
ISBN: 0-395-68093-x
Comments: A great book, easily readable. I've felt the same experiences 
and had the same questions and conclusions in my mind as the young 
author, 
Wurtzel. This is an important, and timely book, not just for 
twentynothings. If you find that people cannot understand your 
depression, 
maybe you should hand them this book to read. --Contributor. Ad notes: 
"An 
electrifying memoir about a young woman's 5-year battle with depression.

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Title: Speaking of Sadness
Author: David Karp
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1996
Comments: Book by a Sociology professor, writing about his own 
depression.  It is heavy reading. --Barbara Zak, zakba@UMDNJ.EDU

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Title: Undercurrents
Author: Marth Manning
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994
Comments: Good book, written by a psychotherapist about her own bout with 
depression. --Barbara Zak, zakba@UMDNJ.EDU

Title: We Heard the Angels of Madness:  One Family's Struggle with Manic 
Depression
Author: Diane and Lisa Berger
ISBN: 0-688-09178-4
Comments: Forwarded by Alexander Vuckovic, M.D. It was written by a 
mother 
who had a son stricken by manic-depression at 19 and the rough road they 
walked to get him the help he needed. Very heartfelt and well written.


Genre: Non-fiction
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Title: 9 Highland Road
Author: Michael Winerup
Publisher: Pantheon Books, 1994
ISBN: 0-679-40724-3
Comments: [jacket notes] "An unprecedented and riveting account of the 
life and lives of a group home for the mentally ill: the residents, their 
families, and the counselors, social workers, and psychologists which 
whom 
they work." Includes struggles with illnesses plus the struggle with 
bureaucracies in keeping the home alive. Excellent book for those 
interested in patient advocacy.

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Title: A Brotherhood of Tyrants: Manic Depression and Absolute Power
Author: D. Jablow Hershman & Julian Lieb
Publisher: , 1994
ISBN: 0-87975-888-0
Comments: The authors consider tyranny as the product of bipolar disorder 
(especially mania) together with ruthlessness, ambition, paranoia, and 
other charming qualities. The approach is interdisciplinary, combining 
psychiatry and history. They present biographies of the public and 
private 
lives of Napoleon, Hitler, and Stalin.

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Title: Anxiety Disorders and Phobias: A Cognitive Perspective
Author: Aaron T. Beck and Gary Emery with Ruth L Greenburg
Publisher: , 1985
Comments: Covers all aspects of anxiety, including how it touches on 
mania 
and depression, depersonalization and derealization,and other topics.

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Title: Beyond Fear
Author: Dorothy Rowe
Publisher: Fontana, 1987
ISBN: 0-00-637 1019
Comments: Fear is the great unmentionable. We fear loss, bereavement, old 
age, death, rejection, failure - most of all we fear annihilation of the 
self. Yet all of this we keep to ourselves, afraid of being thought weak. 
Denying our fear of self-destruction, around which our entire sense of 
self is built, can have profound effects upon ourselves and those around 
us in later life. It can lead to physical illness, like anorexia, or to 
mental problems, such as panic attacks, depression and schizophrenia. It 
lies within our power to break this pattern, discovering greater 
happiness 
in our lives. In this book D Rowe explains how to recognise the need for 
change and how to bring it about." --led@optics.kth.se (Lena D|rwaldt)

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Title: Breaking the Bonds
Author: Dorothy Rowe
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers, 1990, 1991
ISBN: 0-00-215623-7
Comments: Originally published as The Depression Handbook - Understanding 
Depression, Finding Freedom (1990). Understanding depression, finding 
freedom. Depression, says Dr Rowe, is a desperate defence made necessary 
and possible by the conclusions we have drawn from experiences in 
childhood and which we have not examined in the light of our later 
experiences. In the prison of depression we suffer greatly, but as 
Dorothy 
Rowe shows, it is possible to dismantle the prison and live in freedom 
and 
hope." She leads us on the journey. --led@optics.kth.se (Lena D|rwaldt)

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Title: Broken Brain (The):  The Biological Revolution in Psychiatry
Author: Nancy Andreasen, M.D., Ph.D.
Publisher: Harper-Perennial, 1984
ISBN: 0-060-91272-3
Comments: Scientific theories on biochemistry, brain function and  
biophysics of neurotransmission. Language is semi-technical but meant for 
the layperson.

Title: Care of the Soul
Author: Thomas Moore
Publisher: Harper-Perennial, 1992
ISBN: 0-060-92224-9

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Title: Caring For Your Adolescent: Ages 12-21
Author: Donald E. Greydanus, MD, FAAP
Publisher: Bantam Books, 1991
ISBN: 0-553-07556-X
Comments: [from jacket]  Caring For  Your Adolescent gives detailed 
coverage of specific problems that can arise in the adolescent years, 
including issues that concern today's parents the most:  Depression and 
suicide: the warning signs of this teen epidemic; substance abuse: its 
danger signals and how to intervene when your child is in trouble; 
learning disorders: diagnosing and coping with Dylexsia and ADD.

Title: Cognitive Therapy & the Emotional Disorders
Author: Aaron T. Beck, M.D.
Publisher: Penguin-Meridian, 1976
ISBN: 0-452-00928-6

Title: Comfort for Depression
Author: Janet Horwood
Publisher: Sheldon Press, London, 1988
ISBN: 0-85969-554-9
Comments: Sweet little book on getting through the day while depressed. 
Chapters such as "Pamper Your Body," "Putting your Money in its Place," 
and more. Help resources listed mostly in the U.K., but could be helpful 
to anyone needing comfort.

Title: Complete Guide to your Emotions and your Health (The)
Author: Emrika Padus
Publisher: Rodale Press, 1986
ISBN: 0-87857-589-8
Comments: This is a gem from the editors of Prevention Magazine. 
Information packed.

Title: Consumers Guide to Psychotherapy (The)
Author: Jack Engler, Ph.D. and Daniel Goleman, Ph.D.
Publisher: Fireside-Simon & Schuster, 1992
ISBN: 0-671-77851-X

Title: Contagious Emotions:  Staying Well When Your Loved One is 
Depressed.
Author: Ronald M. Podell with Porter Shimmer
Publisher: Pocket Books, 1992
ISBN: 0-671-70239-4
Comments: This is a book about how to help your partner get over their 
depression without fights and without you becoming hurt yourself. It 
teaches you how to avoid "fusion", relentless angry fights and conflicts 
with your spouse. It show how the family can help or hurt their loved 
ones 
recovery from depression.

Title: Coping with Anxiety and Depression
Author: Shirley Trickett
Publisher: Sheldon Press, London, 1989
ISBN: 0-85969-592-1
Comments: Book has a British feel, has great tips on relaxation and 
calming the mind. May over-simplify causes, but the suggestions are 
positive an helpful.

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Title: Creative Brainstorms: The Relationship Between Madness and Genius
Author: Russell R. Monroe, M.D.
Publisher: Irvington Publishers, Inc.  740 Broadway, NY NY 10003, 
ISBN: 0-8290-1769-0
Comments: Robert Lowell and Ernest Hemingway are the main persons the 
author uses as examples of artists with manic-depression. Others are 
mentioned: Ezra Pound, Mary Lamb, Virginia Woolf.

Title: Depressed? Here is a Way Out!
Author: Hugh Smith, M.S.
Publisher: Harper Collins, London, UK, 1991
ISBN: 0-00-627565-6
Comments: This book is a 12 step guide for those who want to form groups 
and use the suggested 12 step principles of Depressed Anonymous for their 
own personal recovery. People can form their own groups using the steps 
outlined in this book.

Title: Depression and its Treatment
Author: John H. Greist, M.D. and James W. Jefferson, M.D.
Publisher: Warner Books, 1992
ISBN: 0-446-60029-6

Title: Depression and the Social Environment:  Research and Intervention 
with Neglected Populations
Author: Philippe Cappeliez and Robert J.
Publisher: McGill-Queens University Pr., 1993
ISBN: 0-7735-0960-7.
Comments: Some of the chapter titles are as follows:  Childhood 
Depression; Adolescent Depression; Suicidal Behaviour and Depression in 
Young Adults; Gender, Psychosocial Factors, and Depression. Since this is 
a fairly scholarly book it may be heavy reading for some. Yet, maybe many 
of you might want to take a peek through.

Title: Depression Book (The):  Depression as an Opportunity for Spiritual 
Practice
Author: Cheri Huber
Publisher: A Center for the Practice of Zen Buddhist Meditation, 1991
ISBN: 0-9614754-3-9
Comments: An alternative understanding of working with depression rather 
than against it. Includes tips for meditation as one method to deal with 
depression. The back cover reads "This book suggests that hating and 
resisting depression -- or anything else we don't want -- actually 
maintains it, and that compassionate acceptance of our feelings and 
ourselves leads us to freedom."

Title: Depression: The Mood Disease
Author: Francis M. Mondimore, M.D.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993
ISBN: 0-8018-4592-0
Comments: "This highly readable book provides a broad education on a 
potentially tragic subject...Dr. Mondimore's admirably comprehensive book 
should help thousands to understand this complex but treatable ailment. 
The wise reader will pick it up." --Dick Cavett

Title: Depression Workbook (The)
Author: Mary Ellen Copeland
Publisher: New Haringer Publications, 1992
Comments: A detailed overview of the history, causes and treatment of 
mood 
disorders. Offers stey-by-step, self-help guidance for taking 
responsibility for your own wellness; using charts to track and control 
your moods; find appropriate mental health professionals; build a support 
system, increase your self-confidence and self-esteem; using relaxation, 
diet, exercise and full-spectrum light to stabilize your moods; and avoid 
conditions that can exacerbate you moods swings. "An essential tool to 
assist people struggling with depression and mania to gain insight to 
actively enter a lifelong journey of healing and wellness."

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Title: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth 
Edition (DSM IV)
Author: First, Michael B. M.D.
Publisher: American Psychiatric Association, 1994
ISBN: 0-89042-061-0 (Hard) 0-89042-062-9 (Paper)
Comments: Lists all mental illnesses and diagnostic criteria and assigns 
a 
coding system. Fascinating reading.

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Title: Emotional Pharmacy (The)
Author: Roberta Morgan
Publisher: Body Press, 1988
ISBN: 0-895-86709-5
Comments: Covers psychological problems treatable with psychoactives as 
well as recreationals and their affect on brain chemistry and behavior.

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Title: Essential Guide to Psychiatric Drugs (The)
Author: Jack Gorman
Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 1995
ISBN: 0-312-95458-1
Comments: Discussion of psychiatric drugs, info about side effects, and 
practical tips, in non-technical language.

Title: Everything You Need to Know About Prozac
Author: Jeffrey M. Jonas, M.D. and Ron Schaumburg
Publisher: Bantam, 1991
ISBN: 0-553-29192-0

Title: Feeling Good Handbook (The)
Author: David D. Burns, M.D.
Publisher: Plume, 1989
ISBN: 0-452-26174-0

Title: Feeling Good:  The New Mood Therapy
Author: David Burns, M.D.
Publisher: Signet, 1980
ISBN: 0-451-16776-7
Comments: Self-help cognitive therapy techniques for depression, anxiety, 
etc.

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Title: Fire in the Brain: Clinical Tales of Hallucinations
Author: Ronald K. Siegel
Publisher: E.P. Dutton, NY, 1992
Comments: Siegel is a professor at UCLA School of Medicine's Department 
of 
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Studies of various hallucinatory 
experiences, including sleep disorder states.

Title: Fire in the Soul
Author: Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.
Publisher: Warner Books, 1993
ISBN: 0-446-67015-4
Comments: This resource focuses on healing, spirituality, and 
transforming 
our hurts/pains.  It also has many resources at the end, including but 
not 
limited to:  the men's movement, women's spirituality, meditation & music 
tapes, and organizations & publications.

Title: From Sad to Glad
Author: Nathan S. Kline, M.D.
Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1991
ISBN: 0-345-34252-6
Comments: Out of date pharmacologically "but excellent otherwise." Kline 
says: "Psychiatry has labored too long under the delusion that every 
emotional malfunction requires an endless talking out of everything the 
patient ever experienced."

Title: Good Mood:  The New Psychology of Overcoming Depression
Author: Julian L. Simon
Publisher: Open Court Press, 1993
ISBN: 0-812-69097-4 (cloth) 0-812-69098-2 (paper)

Title: Good News About Depression (The)
Author: Mark S. Gold
Publisher: Bantam, 1986
ISBN: 0-553-34511-7
Comments: Non-technical discussion of depression as a biochemical illness.

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Title: Good News About Panic, Anxiety and Phobias (The); Cures,  
Treatments and Solutions in the New Age of Biopsychiatry
Author: Mark S. Gold, M.D.
Publisher: , 1989
Comments: How biological mimickers can cause psychiatric symptoms, 
caffeine, sunlight, OCD, medications, tests, MAO levels, etc. Lists 
resources by state and contains a bibliography.

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Title: Graedons' Best Medicine from Herbal Remedies to High-Tech Rx 
Breakthroughs
Author: Joe and Teresa Graedon
Publisher: , 1991
Comments: Very readable, nontechnical reference book with useful inserts 
on such topics as "Drug-induced Insomnia."  Has separate chapters on 
"High 
Anxiety," "Mind Matters," and others.

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Title: Growing up Sad: Childhhod Depression and It's Treatment
Author: Leon Cytryn MD and Donald McKnew MD
Publisher: WW Norton and Co., 1996
ISBN: 0-393-03827-0
Comments: <Book jacket> Both depression in children and suicide attempts 
by the young are on the rise.  This state-of-the-art book presents 
essential information for understanding and the treatment for depressed 
children as well as preventing depression in the young. 

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Title: Guide to Life
Author: Dorothy Rowe
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers, 1995
ISBN: 0-00-255562X
Comments: Dorothy Rowe's books render the self-help industry redundant. 
If 
you want to know the secret of life, including how to make your life rich 
and fulfilling, read Dorothy Rowe. The central theme of all her work is 
that, while the world and ourselves might SEEM to be solid and real, 
physically constituted as we are, we can never know reality directly but 
only the meanings we have created about reality. In each of her books 
Dorothy Rowe has examined the important aspects of our lives - suffering, 
fear, depression and unhappiness, emotion, mental illness, religious 
belief, power, greed, selfishness, responsibility, revenge, education, 
sex, time, ageing - in the light of her central theme. She has shown how, 
by understanding our nature, we can end our suffering. Her Guide to Life 
is a summation of this wisdom but with more besides, for there is no end 
to self-understanding. Like all her books, it is clear and compassionate, 
witty and wise."  ----led@optics.kth.se (Lena D|rwaldt). And Melissa 
Benn, 
Guardian: "Dorothy Rowe is essentially a chronicler of emotional pain, a 
suggester of solutions. Her perspective on existence acknowledges 
sadness, 
pain, anger, but it instantly makes things seem meaningful".

Title: Happiness is a Choice
Author: Barry Neil Kaufman
Publisher: Fawcett, 1991
ISBN: 0-449-90799-6
Comments: Focuses on empowering your moment of change, the moment in 
which 
we can make self-acceptance, inner peace, joy and love immediately 
tangible with easy-to-use tools.  Kaufman offers a gentle, yet powerful 
way to jump through a lengthy "process" of change right into action - to 
make ourselves happy any time, anywhere. His book is based upon his years 
of teaching at the Option Institute. The book contains six Shortcuts to 
Happiness, traits demonstrated by people who are successful in finding 
happiness. "Happiness is a Choice" is filled with inspiring examples of 
people who have taken this road to happiness. Many of them used the tools 
presented in this book to heal troubled relationships, to revitalize 
stagnant careers, to deal with sickness or stress, deal with paralyzing 
physical or emotional problems.

Title: Helping Your Depressed Teenager:  A Guide for Parents and 
Caregivers
Author: Gerald D. Oster, Ph.D., & Sarah S. Montgomery, MSW
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1995
ISBN: 0-471-62184-6
Comments: [from back cover]...The book provides information on telling 
the 
difference between moodiness and depression...tells how to read the 
warning signs of troubled teenagers...tells what families can do to 
prevent teen depression...tells how to know when professional help is 
needed and where to find it...The authors have produced a very readable, 
extremely well informed and comprehensive book that will add greatly to 
the knowledge base of interested parents. This book is strongly 
recommended. - Stewart Gabel, MD, Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, The 
Childrens Hospital, Denver, Colorado.

Title: How to Cope with Depression:  A Complete Guide for You and Your 
Family
Author: J. Raymond DePaulo, Jr. M.D. and Keith Russel Ablow, M.D.
Publisher: Ballentine Books, 1989
ISBN: 0-449-21930-5

Title: How to Heal Depression
Author: Harold H. Bloomfield, M.D. and Peter McWilliams
Publisher: Prelude Press, 1994
ISBN: 0-931-58039-0

Title: How To Help Someone Who Is Depressed, Or Suicidal:  Practical 
Suggestions From A Survivor
Author: John Cook
Publisher: Rubicon Press, 1994
ISBN: 0-9630359-5-9
Comments: "If someone in your life -- a loved-one, a friend -- is 
depressed or suicidal, this book is for you...and for them...I've been 
there:  so deep in depression and despair I thought I'd never get out; so 
ready to kill myself that I'd developed detailed plans for exactly how 
I'd 
do it...This book is about how I got better...and how you may, 
too..."---from the Introduction

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Title: How To Live Between Office Visits - A Guide to Life, Love  & Health
Author: Bernie Siegel, M.D.
Publisher: Harper Collins, 1993
ISBN: 0-06-016800-5
Comments: This book was a personal message to me in how to cope with the 
death of my sister from cancer and to recover from the depression that 
surrounded that.  Dr. Siegel is inspiring in all of his works, but I 
found 
this to be the most applicable to my life and the issue of depression. 
--lorarain@aol.com

Title: I Can See Tomorrow
Author: Patricia L. Owen, Ph.D.
Publisher: Hazelden Foundation, 1995
ISBN: 1-56838-087-9
Comments: This wonderful user friendly book talks about where depression 
starts, different kinds of depression, medications, how to find a 
therapist, how to know if your therapist is helping, and much more. This 
book gave me wonderful insights and hope. --Joelle.

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Title: Impressive Depressives
Author: Peter Nolan Lawrence
Publisher: , 1994
ISBN: 0-95-22806-04
Comments: The author is bipolar, himself. Lawrence cites 75 bipolar 
people 
including Bach, Beethoven, Rossini, JMW Turner, Dumas, Shelley, Byron, 
Lincoln, Edison and the author himself. Published in aid of the (U.K.) 
Manic Depression Fellowship.

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Title: Key to Genius: Manic Depression and the Creative Life
Author: D. Jablow Hershman & Julian Lieb
Publisher: Prometheus, 1988
Comments: A discussion of imagination, manic depression, and a few famous 
people of the past as examples.

Title: Listening To Prozac
Author: Peter D. Kramer, M.D.
Publisher: Viking, 1993
ISBN: 0-670-84183-8
Comments: A psychiatrist explores some of the implications of 
anti-depressants, and especially of Prozac's unusual effects on the 
personality. Kramer also discusses the recent research on depression, as 
well as several other issues which seem linked to depression.

Title: Lithium Encyclopedia for Clinical Practice
Author: J.W. Jefferson, J.H. Geist, D.L. Ackerman, J.A. Carroll
Publisher: American Psychiatric Press, Inc., Washington, DC, 1987
Comments: This book addresses the action of lithium, its interaction with 
other drugs, its effects on other conditions, side effects, and practical 
advice for use.

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Title: Living With Prozac and other SSRIs
Publisher: Harper/SanFrancisco, 1995
Comments: Personal accounts of the lifes of those on SSRIs, also 
describes 
their experiences with depression/manic depression.

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Title: Living Without Depression and Manic Depression
Author: Mary Ellen Copeland

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Title: Madness in America: Cultural and Medical Perceptions of  Mental 
Illness before 1914
Author: Lynn Gamwell and Nancy Tomes
Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1994
Comments: Case histories, illustrations, and sociology of the mental 
institutions and mentally ill in the 19th and early 20th Century.

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Title: Managing Your Migraine
Author: Susan L. Burks
Publisher: Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 1994
ISBN: 0-89603-277-9
Comments: A basic guide to migraine treatment and management, written by 
a 
migraineur. Thorough and up-to-date. Recommended.

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Title: Manic Depression: Illness or Awakening
Author: Robert E. Kelly
Publisher: Knowledge Unlimited Publishers, 1995

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Title: Manic-Depressive Illness
Author: Fredrick K. Goodwin, M.D., & Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D.
Publisher: Oxford, 1990
ISBN: 0-195-03934-3
Comments: Drs. Goodwin and Jamison have set out to write "the" 
authoritative text on manic-depressive illness, and it would appear that 
they have succeeded.  The book includes an exhaustive review of all the 
other literature currently available at the time. Although this is an 
excellently written book, it's a bit much for some to digest. Remember 
when you were little and your mom said "now don't order the super-giant 
burger unless you know you can eat it all"?  Well this book is like the 
super-giant burger.  It retails for about $75.00, and it may possibly 
weigh more than you do.

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Title: Medicine and Mental Illness: The Use of Drugs in Psychiatry
Author: Marvin E. Lickey and Barbara Gordon
Publisher: W.H. Freeman & Co., NY,, 1991
ISBN: 0-7167-2196-1 (soft)
Comments: Provides an overview of drug therapies for varying forms of 
mental illness.

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Title: Mind, Mood, and Medicine: A Guide to the New Biopsychiatry
Author: Paul H. Wender, and Donald F. Klein
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, Pub., 1981
Comments: Non-technical, goes into the biological bases of psychiatric 
illnesses, and also treatments (as of 1981).

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Title: Moodswings
Author: Ronald R. Fieve, M.D.
Publisher: Bantam/Morrow, 1989
ISBN: Bantam 0-553-27983-1 (paper), Morrow 0-688-08879-1 (cloth)
Comments: Contains information and anecdotal stories about depressives 
and 
manic depressives; by the individual who spearheaded lithium therapy.

Title: Munchausen's Pigtail - Psychotherapy and 'Reality':  Essays & 
Lectures
Author: Paul Walzlawick,  Ph.D.
Publisher: Norton, 
ISBN: 0-393-0285-9

Title: Nobody's Child
Author: Marie Balter & Richard Katz
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. Reprint, 1991

Title: Overcoming Depression
Author: Demitri F. and Janice Papolos
Publisher: Harper-Perennial, 1992
ISBN: 0-060-96594-0 (paper)
Comments: Good basic text on the various aspects of depression and 
manic/depression. Considered by some to be a "classic" in the field.

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Title: Physicians' Desk Reference, 49th Editions
Author: Arky, Ronald, M.D.
Comments: An expensive, but worthwhile investment for anyone who's ever 
been told that ANY drug is "perfectly safe" or "without side-effects". 
Cross-indexed by manufacturers brand names, generic names, product 
identification guide, product information, and diagnostic information.  A 
"must-have" for anyone who wishes to be an informed consumer.

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Title: Pill Book (The)
Author: Lawrence Chilnick (editor)
Publisher: Bantam Books, NY, 1992 (5th Edition)
ISBN: 0-553-29463-6
Comments: An illustrated guide to the most-prescribed drugs in the United 
States. Invaluable resource.

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Title: Plead Insanity (A): When Manic Depression Turns Violent
Author: Paul Rollins
Publisher: Odenwald Press, 1993

Title: Practical Handbook of Psychopharmacology:  A Clinician's Guide
Author: Edward A. Workman, EdD ,MD & Frank F. Tellian, MD
Publisher: CRC Press, Inc., 1994
Comments: Unique features:  Handbook format, drug therapy practice 
guidelines and flowcharts, based on cutting edge clinical research, fits 
in a coat pocket, rapid access to critical information.

Title: Primer of Drug Action (A):  A Concise, Nontechnical Guide to the 
Actions, Uses and Side Effects of Psychoactive Drugs"
Author: Robert M. Julien
Publisher: W.H. Freeman, 1992 6th ed
ISBN: 0-716-72261-5

Title: Prozac:  Questions and Answers for Patients, Families and 
Physicians
Author: Dr. Ronald R. Fieve, M.D.
Publisher: , 1993
ISBN: 0-387-77718-5

Title: Psychiatric Disabilities, Employment, and the Americans with 
Disabilities Act
Author: Office of Technology Assessment
Publisher: Office of Technology Assessment, 1994
Comments: This 136 page book gives a comprehensive overview of the 
employment aspects of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). It 
outlines the role of various government agencies in helping people with 
psychiatric disabilities in the work place. The limitations of the ADA 
are 
discussed as well as other relevant laws. References to journal articles 
are also helpful to those who want to learn more.  To order, request 
publication S/N 052-003-01366-5 and send $8.50 for each copy to:  New 
Orders, Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954,  Pittsburgh, PA 
15250-7954. Make checks payable to the Superintendent of Documents.  They 
also accept VISA or MasterCard. Phone order (202) 783-3238 Fax order 
(202) 
512-2250.

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Title: Questions and Answers about Depression and its Treatment
Author: Dr. Ivan Goldberg
Publisher: The Charles Press, 1993
ISBN: 0-914783-68-8
Comments: A 112 page FAQ on depression & manic depression. Covers all 
aspects. Highly recommended.

Title: Receptors
Author: Richard M. Restak, M.D.
Publisher: Bantam Books, NY, 1994
Comments: The author is an M.D. who also suffers from depression. He's 
not 
anti-pill nor does he say that medications will solve everything. He 
writes about how our neurological receptors work and effect how we feel. 
His book is detailed, but not too technical that you can't understand 
what 
he's saying. He gives a history of how the different receptors were 
discovered. He also talks about how alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, heroin, 
cocaine, and prescription drugs effect us. One chapter is about how 
"lithium" was discovered and used to treat people with manic depression.

Title: Seasons of the Mind
Author: Norman Rosenthal, M.D.
Comments: About Seasonal Affective Disorder.

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Title: Silencing the Self: Women and Depression
Author: Dana Crowley Jack
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1991

Title: Suicide:  The Forever Decision
Author: Paul G. Quinnet
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Company, 1987
ISBN: 0-8264-0391-3
Comments: This is without a doubt the best book I've seen on suicide and 
it's prevention. This is not one of those books that just said that life 
is worth it. It has chapters on loneliness, stress, hopelessness and what 
you can do about them. In some places I felt like he was writing just to 
me. --Contributor

Title: Talking Back to Prozac
Author: Peter Breggin
Publisher: St. Martins Press, 1994
ISBN: 0-312-11486-9

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Title: The Depression Handbook - Understanding Depression, Finding Freedom
Author: Dorothy Rowe
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers, 1990, 1991
ISBN: 0-00-215623-7
Comments: Reissued as Breaking the Bonds (1991). Understanding 
depression, 
finding freedom. Depression, says Dr Rowe, is a desperate defence made 
necessary and possible by the conclusions we have drawn from experiences 
in childhood and which we have not examined in the light of our later 
experiences. In the prison of depression we suffer greatly, but as D Rowe 
shows, it is possible to dismantle the prison and live in freedom and 
hope." She leads us on the journey. --led@optics.kth.se (Lena D|rwaldt)

Title: The Way Up From Down
Author: Priscilla Slagle, M.D.
ISBN: 0-312-92914-5
Comments: It stresses a nutritional approach, heavy on the amino acid 
tyrosine, and a complete vitamin supplement program. May work for people 
with less difficult forms of depression.

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Title: Think Like a Shrink: Solve your Problems yourself with Short-Term 
Therapy Techniques
Author: Christ Zois
Publisher: Warner Books, 1992
ISBN: 0446516473
Comments: Not specifically for extreme depression, but it can helpyou 
analyze your defenses and find your true feelings.

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Title: Thoughts and Feelings:  The Art of Cognitive Stress Intervention
Author: Matthew McKay, Martha Davis, Patric Fanning

Title: To Love is to Be Happy With
Author: Barry Neil Kaufman
Publisher: Fawcett, 1977
ISBN: 0-449-21119-3
Comments: This book details the principles and applications of "The 
Option 
Process." It's a manual for anyone who wants a happier, more loving and 
life-affirming way of living!! "The Option Process" is based on the 
attitude that to love is to be happy with  (either yourself or someone 
else). The process (which uses a very simple, beautiful, accepting and 
non-judgmental dialogue method/attitude) is an incredible new way to 
discard self-defeating beliefs and clarify doubts that have inhibited our 
personal our professional success and happiness. This book contains 
actual 
dialogues and helps to illustrate the awesome power this process has for 
helping someone help themselves to become happier.

Title: Touched with Fire:  Manic-depressive Illness and the Artistic 
Temperament
Author: Kay Jamison
Publisher: The Free Press, 1993
ISBN: 0-02-916030-8 (cloth) 0-060-96594-0 (paper)
Comments: A look at a number of 19th century poets, writers, and  
composers who were Bipolar. Comment by Dr. James D. Watson, Director of 
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Novel laureate and author of The Double 
Helix: "An emphatic analysis of the creativity that emerges from a little 
madness and the horror from too much."

Title: Toxic Psychiatry:  Why Therapy, Empathy, and Love Must Replace 
Drugs, Electroshock, and the Biochemical Theories of the "New Psychiatry."
Author: Peter Breggin
Publisher: St. Martin's Press; 1991, 1991
ISBN: 0-312-05975-2

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Title: Understanding and Treating Depressed Adolescents and Their Families
Author: Gerald D. Oster, Ph.D., & Janice E. Caro, Ph.D.
Publisher: John Wiley & Co., 1990
ISBN: 0-471-60897-1
Comments: A book for professionals that represents a focused effort to 
integrate a family therapy model and clinical wisdom into framework 
encompassing the varied treatments utilized by clinicians for youth mood 
disorders.+

Title: Understanding Depression
Author: Donald Klein, M.D., and Paul Wender, M.D.
Publisher: Oxford, 1993
ISBN: 0-195-08669-4
Comments: The authors are the founders of the National Assn. for 
Depressive Illness. Melvin Sabshin, M.D., Medical Director, American 
Psychiatric Assn. writes:  "A very good source of information that will 
be 
extraordinarily useful to patients and their families."

Title: Waking Up Alive:  The Descent, the Suicide Attempt, and the Return 
to Life.
Author: Richard A. Heckler, Ph.D.
ISBN: 0-399-13945-1
Comments: It's not about Depression per-se, but the by-product. This is 
the very first one about suicide that tells how it actually is inside of 
people.

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Title: Wanting Everything - The Art of Happiness
Author: Dorothy Rowe
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers, 1991
ISBN: 0-00-2155486
Comments: "To be human is to suffer. We enter this world expecting that 
we 
can have everything, but we learn very quickly that we cannot always get 
what we want. The accompanying and constant feeling of loss, frustration, 
anger, aggression, resentment and sadness can dominate us for the rest of 
our lives. This book is about the strategies we evolve to cope with the 
frustration endemic in our experience of life to convince ourselves that 
we can, after all, have everything. D Rowe shows us how, once we 
understand the nature of longing and the conditions which prevent its 
fulfillment, we can arrive at a state of wanting everything which does 
lead to happiness." --led@optics.kth.se (Lena D|rwaldt)

Title: What to do During Depression:  A Reason to Live
Author: Melody Beattie
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 1992
ISBN: 0-8423-0988-8
Comments: This is a book that explores reasons to live and reasons not to 
commit suicide. It also contains suggestions for life-affirming actions 
people can take to help themselves get through those times when they're 
struggling to find a reason to live.

Title: What You Need to Know About Psychiatric Drugs
Author: Stuart C. Yudofsky,M.D.; Robert E. Hales,M.D.; and Tom 
Ferguson,M.D.
Publisher: Ballantine, 1991
ISBN: 0-345-37334-0

Title: When Acceptance Is Denial:  A Handbook for People Who Are Confused 
About Confusion
Author: Gil Eriksen, MSW, LCSW, CAP
Publisher: Gil Eriksen Communications, Inc., 
ISBN: 0-9638868-7-8
Comments: Author is a psychotherapist in Ft. Lauderdale; book is full of 
very basic and useful information for clear thinking, recognizing truth, 
making decisions that work. Not in all bookstores, but they can obtain it 
through distributors. Publisher also takes mail orders:  399 SE 18th Ct, 
Ft. Lauderdale FL 33316.

Title: When am I Going to Be Happy?
Author: Penelope Russianoff, Ph.D.
Publisher: Bantam, 1989
ISBN: 0-553-28215-8

Title: When Someone You Love Has A Mental Illness
Author: Rebecca Woolis, M.F.C.C.
Publisher: Tarcher/Perigee (Putnam Publishing Group), 1992

Title: When the Blues Won't Go Away
Author: Robert Hirschfeld, M.D.
Publisher: , 1991
ISBN: 0-025-51825-9
Comments: Concerns new approaches to Dysthymic Disorder and other forms 
of 
chronic low-grade depression.

Title: Winter Blues:  Seasonal Affective Disorder and How to Overcome it.
Author: Norman Rosenthal, M.D.
Publisher: The Guilfold Press, 1993

Title: Women Who Hurt Themselves:  A Book of Hope & Understanding
Author: Dusty Miller, ED.D
Publisher: Basic Books, 1994
ISBN: 0-465-09220-9
Comments: The primary focus for this book is for women & women's healing 
from past traumas, including depressions & self-injurious behaviors. 
Bibliographical references and index are included. Very positive resource!

Title: You Are Not Alone
Author: Julia Thorne with Larry Rothstein
Publisher: Harper Collins, 1993
ISBN: 0-060-96977-6
Comments: The writings of depressives, for both depressives and those who 
need to understand them. Shervert Frazier, M.D., former director of the 
National Institutes of Mental Health says: "A ground breaking book 
that...reveals the impact of depression on the lives of everyday people. 
This little book is must reading for sufferers, those associated with 
depression, and mental health professionals"

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Title: You Can Beat Depression: A Guide to Prevention and Recovery
Author: John Preston, Psy.D.
Publisher: San Luis Obispo, CA: Impact Publishers, 1996 (Second Edition) 

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Title: You Can Feel Good Again
Author: Richard Carlson, Ph.D.
Publisher: Plume (Penguin) Books, 1993
ISBN: 0-525-93705-6, 0-425-27242-4 (pbk.)
Comments: <From the back cover.> A drug-free approach to changing your 
life--for the better. Revolutionary in it's simplicity and accesible to 
all, the new branch of psychotherapy called Psychology of Mind, offers 
profound, short-term, common-sense methods that allow you to let go of 
depression and tap into your natural state of well-being. Like cognitive 
therapy, Psychology of Mind is concerned with the thinking process, but 
the approach is simpler to learn and easier to use. You'll find out: 1) 
How dwelling on negative past events leads away from mental health, and 
why traditional therapy so often fails. 2) How your thinking about 
circumstances, rather than the circumstances themselves, brings about 
unhappiness. 3) How to access your natural state of mental health, 
contentment, and peace of mind...

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Title: You Gotta Keep Dancin':  In the Midst of Life's Hurts, You Can 
Choose Joy
Author: Tim Hansel
Publisher: David C. Cook Publishing Co., 1985
ISBN: 0-89191-722-5
Comments: The freeing message of "You Gotta Keep Dancin'" is that, no 
matter what your circumstances, you can choose to be joyful.

Title: You Mean I Don't Have To Feel This Way?
Author: Collette Dowling
Publisher: Bantam, 1993
ISBN: 0-553-37169-X
Comments: Jeffrey M. Jonas, M.D. writes:  "An important book that is 
filled with information helpful to sufferers of mood and eating disorders 
and other illnesses. It should be read not only by lay people but also by 
professionals who deal with these illnesses."

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