The Secret Strength of Depression, Fourth Edition: The Self Help Classic, Updated and Revised with Sections on Ptsd and the Latest Antidepressant Medi

by Frederic Flach

Book Overview

"...can make you feel better just by reading it." --Boston Globe

Fully Revised and Updated

Dr. Frederic Flach was one of the pioneers in the study of biology and depression and established the groundwork for the understanding of human resilience. When it was first published in 1974, The Secret Strength of Depression allowed people suffering from depression to no longer feel trapped in stigma and shame.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578262755
• ISBN13: 9781578262755
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Hatherleigh Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

An Extensive Treatise on Depression and Psychiatry

This classic book: is opulent, is bright, and takes the fear of psychotherapy and antidepressants. It is not a classical self help book. It addresses depressive people and their relatives. `The Secret Strength of Depression' supplies the reader with a lot of background material on the topic depression. Flach uses the word depression not only for the clinical cases, but also for people in grief and for people in a longish phase of depressive mood. In this book you will learn about psychotherapeutical treatment und treatment with different kinds of drugs. The biological background of them is explained. Flach claims there is no addiction with antidepressants. In spite of the heavy topic one gets a relatively light read. Though a very lengthy read.

Great encouragement for the depressed individual.

The "gift" is that depression offers sensitivity and opportunity for insight and change, and that by learning to deal with life's bumps, you can experience feelings of competancy, power, and control over your life. The only drawback I find in Flach's thinking is that he downplays the physical aspects of depression/manic depression, a premise that might lead the reader to the conclusion that "it's all in your head," which could be pretty depressing!