When Living Hurts

This volume puts at the therapist's fingertips 91 strategies to interrupt specific patterns of depression in individuals. It stresses the need actively to intervene experientially and on multiple dimensions, and also provides a progression of concepts that give support to the directives.

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First published in 1994. Some episodes of depression can even be prevented, but the greater focus in this book is on responding to the experience of depression that is already present in the afflicted individual. This book represents an effort to make the extremely complex and subjective experience of depression one that can be better understood and more effectively treated. It does not represent a school of therapy in a singular way. Rather, it promotes the recognition of the diversity of human experience such that an emphasis on anyone approach will seem obviously self-limiting.