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Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression
Penguin Press
June 2008
On Sale: June 12, 2008
448 pages ISBN: 1594201668 EAN: 9781594201660 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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. Gordon’s 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 they’ve been receiving. One of our country’s 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 we’re stuck. It’s 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. Gordon’s 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
depression’s 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.
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