Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 04:52:43 -0400 From: David Harris Subject: [MAD] "Mood disorders" book list To: MADNESS@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU From: SHIC@shic.com (Self-Help Information Center) Newsgroups: alt.support.depression,alt.answers,news.answers Subject: UPDATED!!!! Mood Disorders -- Book List Date: 9 Apr 1997 02:26:36 GMT Organization: Self-Help Informatics Coalition Summary: This contains a list of books compiled from the personal recommendations of the members/readers/participants of the Walkers-in-Darkness & Pendulum mailing lists, the alt.support.depression newsgroup, and the Mood Disorders Support Network support group on AOL. Originator: faqserv@penguin-lust.MIT.EDU Archive-name: alt-support-depression/books Posting-Frequency: bi-weekly Last-modified: 1996/08/23 MOOD DISORDERS BOOK LIST ======================== 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. If you have any additions, updates, corrections, suggestions, etc. for this list, please send email to "SHIC@shic.com". Would you like to sponsor this list and help us keep this list updated and accurate? Do you have access to the Books in Print database? Please contact us at SHIC@shic.com It is our sincere hope that people dealing with the issues surrounding mood disorders, will be able to empower themselves through the information about these books. We realize that this list is *very* long, and we are working to break it down into more digestable portions. Key: + = Added since last posting & = Updated/corrected since last posting BOOK LIST ========= Genre: Biographical ------------------- 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. ++++++++++ Title: A Season in Hell Author: Percy Knauth Publisher: Harper and Row, 1975 Comments: Hard to come by. ++++++++++ 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. ++++++++++ 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. ++++++++++ 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." ++++++++++ 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. ++++++++++ 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. ++++++++++ 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. &&&&&&&&&& 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 ++++++++++ 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. ++++++++++ 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 ++++++++++ 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 &&&&&&&&&& 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. ++++++++++ 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 ++++++++++ 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 ------------------ ++++++++++ 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. ++++++++++ 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. ++++++++++ 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. ++++++++++ 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) ++++++++++ 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) &&&&&&&&&& 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 ++++++++++ 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. ++++++++++ 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." ++++++++++ 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. ++++++++++ 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. &&&&&&&&&& 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. ++++++++++ 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. ++++++++++ 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. ++++++++++ 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. ++++++++++ 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: 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. ++++++++++ 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 ++++++++++ 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. ++++++++++ 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. ++++++++++ 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. ++++++++++ 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. ++++++++++ Title: Living Without Depression and Manic Depression Author: Mary Ellen Copeland ++++++++++ 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. ++++++++++ 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. ++++++++++ Title: Manic Depression: Illness or Awakening Author: Robert E. Kelly Publisher: Knowledge Unlimited Publishers, 1995 &&&&&&&&&& 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. ++++++++++ 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. ++++++++++ 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). &&&&&&&&&& 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. ++++++++++ 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. ++++++++++ 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. ++++++++++ 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. &&&&&&&&&& 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. ++++++++++ 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 ++++++++++ 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. ++++++++++ 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 help you analyze your defenses and find your true feelings. ++++++++++ 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 ++++++++++ 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. ++++++++++ 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" ++++++++++ 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) ++++++++++ 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: 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... ++++++++++ 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." '' ----- Compilation Copyright (C) 1996 The Self-Help Information Center, a service of the Self-Help Informatics Coalition. Comments are not necessarily the opinions of the Self-Help Informatics Coalition. Special thanks to E. A. Kalish , Joy A. Ikelman , and Barbara Zak , L. J. West for major contributions. And thanks to everyone and anyone who has contributed.