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Breaking the Patterns of Depression
by Michael D. Yapko
from Main Street Books

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• This is NOT for people with clinical depression
  There are people who get overwhelmed with life issues and become depressed with what they must face. Once the situation is resolved, they recover and go back to their lives. I would call this a mood disorder and their pattern is to retreat when problems overwhelm them. Learning how to handle life's ups and downs is behavior modification and fits this book. However, this book is way behind current mental health findings. Most mental illness, like clinical depression, is inherited. It is a genetic... more info

• Excellent self-help book
  My wife gives copies of this book to many of her psychotherapy clients. She regards it as an excellent aid to overcoming depression.

• Excellent service
  I needed to reference this book for a counseling situation and it came right on time and in great condition. Thanks

• Not for sufferers of clinical depression
  This book was recommended to me by a mental health professional. I struggled to get through nearly 300 pages of this drivel before writing this review. This book takes everything that depressive patients have been told and tosses it out the window. Patients suffering serious depressive episodes will likely be offended by the simplistic attitudes taken by the author. It's premise seems to be that depression can be cured by sheer force of will - get up, go out, see people, exercise, blah blah blah. "Optimism... more info

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