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Recovery from Depression Using the Narrative Approach: A Guide for Docto

rs, Complementary Therapists and Mental Health Professionals
  • ISBN-13: 9781843105756
  • Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
  • By Damien Ridge
  • Price: AUD $51.99
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  • Local release date: 14/01/2009
  • Format: Paperback 208 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Psychology [JM]
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Damien Ridge is a reader in Integrated Health at the University of Westminster, following positions as Senior Research Fellow at City University London and Senior Qualitative Researcher at Oxford University. He has been a specialist qualitative researcher for over 15 years, with expertise in understanding how people give meaning to recovering from mental health problems. He is widely published in leading scientific journals, including Social Science & Medicine and Sociology of Health & Illness. Damien lives in Brixton and is a regular meditation and yoga practitioner.
Contents: Acknowledgements. Preface: About this Book. 1. Introduction. 2. Life Prior to a Diagnosis. 3. The Experience of Depression. 4. Recovering from Depression. 5. Medical Tools. 6. Non-Medical Recovery Tools. 7. Health Professionals as Recovery Allies. 8. Talking Therapies. 9. Summing It Up. Appendix: Participant Biographical Details. References. Recommended Reading. List of Boxes. List of Case Studies. Subject Index. Author Index.
Recovery is about progress, not perfection. Whilst ""recovery"" is used or felt to be ""owned"" by many in the mental health sector, it is a vital word that needs to be widely reclaimed by society. In this refreshing book, the author does this, showing how recovery is not ""something"" that happens to people, but is ongoing, being enabled and co-produced by people working together to nurture their innate abilities to rebuild and regain hope. In this book, recovery is shown to be practical, real, ongoing and achievable. We are all in recovery in one way or another, and we need to listen more to those with depression: stories from people with depression show how positive health care and social changes can be made.
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