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Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Praise

Dedication

Preface: How to Use This Book

I The Meaning of Depression

1 An Ordinary Story

2 Depression – the Painful Isolation

3 Our Greatest Fear

Finding the Source of Our Greatest Fear

Extraverts and Introverts

Why We Need to Know Ourselves

4 Believing That We Are Not Good Enough

Drawing the Conclusion ‘I Am Bad’

Saving Our Self

Becoming An Expert in Feeling Guilty

Compensations for Believing ‘I Am Bad’

Living Our Story

5 Constructing Our Prison of Depression

How Thoughts and Images Create a Prison

How Pat Built her Prison of Depression

The Recipe for Depression

How the Six Beliefs Fit Together

II Why Is It So Hard To Change?

6 Fearing Change

7 Wanting Certainty

8 Pride

9 Taking Things Personally

10 Hanging On to Hopes

11 Other People

Ourselves and Society

Families Against Change

Partners and Power

III The Journey Out of the Prison of Depression

12 The Expert’s Secret

13 Fitting Yourself for the Journey

14 Suicide Is Not a Solution

15 What You Need to Find Along the Way

Labelling Emotions Correctly

Finding Forgiveness

The Consequences of Striving to Be Good

The World Is Neither Just Nor Unjust

Our Helplessness Is the Source of Our Strength

Changing Our Relationships with Other People

16 Leaving Loneliness Behind

Our Rules about Our Relationships

Our Beliefs about Relationships

Our Skills in Our Relationships

Our Emotions in Our Relationships

Dismantling the Barrier

Twelve Decisions

17 Helping One Another

18 Trying Something New

19 Journey’s End

IV Discoveries

20 Discoveries

Discoveries

V Technical Footnotes

21 Is Depression a Physical Illness?

The History of Depression

The Classification of Depression

What Psychiatrists Say Publicly

What Psychiatrists Say Privately

Why Psychiatrists Insist that Depression Is a Physical Illness

Why Psychologists Insist that Depression Is a Physical Illness

The Cause and Outcome of Cancer and Heart Disease

How Important Is Thinking?

What it Means to Be Told That You Have a Genetic Illness

Understanding Why

22 Drugs – Friend or Foe?

23 Choosing a Therapist

Different Kinds of Therapy

Kinds of Therapists

24 Technical Terms – Keys to the Jargon

Keep Reading

References

Index

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Also by the Author

About the Publisher