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Non-Fiction
DEPRESSION
IS A CHOICE: WINNING THE FIGHT WITHOUT DRUGS.
$24.95 Hyperion.($34.95
in Canada) - ISBN 0-7868-6629-2. March 2001.
For more information about this book please visit www.depressionisachoice.com.
Today there are seventeen million people suffering from depression. Psychotherapist A.B. Curtiss used to be one of them. Not any more. In this illuminating and provocative work, Curtiss re-examines depression, and in so doing, the whole concept of psychology "as we know it." Curtiss shows, neurobiologically, how depression is not a disease to be cured but a necessary defense mechanism which must be properly channeled by a phenomenon she calls Directed Thinking. Interweaving enlightened narrative, personal experience, and sound advice, Curtiss offers an inspiring study of a syndrome that has affected millions of people. The continuing choice of psycholanalytic theory over neuroscience, claims Curtiss, has led to a national acceptance of depression as a disease, and an unnatural reliance of psychotropic drugs to manage it. What has been left out of the equation are the latest findings of brain mapping which point to the extraordinariness of the ordinary human mind and reveal the secrets of how to direct your mind so that you become its driver instead of its passenger. A.B. Curtiss succeeds in walking the fine line between popular theory about depression and her own belief that those who suffer from depression possess the power to overcome it.
