Feeling Better: Beat Depression and Improve Your Relationships with Interpersonal Psychotherapy

Description

Beat Depression and Improve Your Relationships When it comes to treatment for depression, we have been getting it all wrong. Instead of focusing on just the biochemistry, we need to focus on the importance of relationships. Feeling Better offers a step-by-step guide using a research-proven approach called interpersonal psychotherapy, or IPT, which can help you deal with the issues that may be contributing to your unhappiness. Therapists Cindy Stulberg and Ron Frey have used IPT with clients for more than twenty years and achieved dramatic, lasting results after only eight to twelve weeks. They have now created this accessible, first-of-its kind guide. Feeling Better teaches skills and tools that will allow you to set and achieve goals, articulate feelings, and make constructive decisions. You'll learn to identify and engage with allies and supporters, deal with difficult people, and, if need be, walk away from harmful relationships. Cindy and Ron have taught clients -- diagnosed with depression or not -- to use these skills in virtually every life situation, from preventing divorce to "consciously uncoupling," raising healthy children, coping with loss, and dealing with addiction. Writing with wisdom, warmth, and humor, they are savvy coaches and inspiring cheerleaders who can offer a lifeline to the depressed and life enrichment to anyone. Copyright page Contents INTRODUCTION: Get Ready toFeel Better WEEK 1: What If You Had a Broken Leg Instead? WEEK 2: Draw Your Social Circle WEEK 3: Name That Feeling WEEK 4: Choose Your Own Adventure WEEK 5: Goal Get ’Em WEEK 6: Mirror, Mirror WEEK 7: Who Can You Share That With? WEEK 8: Out with the Old, In with the New WEEK 9: What Did You Expect? WEEK 10: The Rehearsal WEEK 11: Just Do It WEEK 12: Do Your Happy Dance Acknowledgments Notes Index About the Authors