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This is a valuable book offering an insightful understanding of depression. It is not a self help book in the ordinary sense and needs to be read by individuals who are committed to an inside learning and understanding to the nature of suffering. --Anne Welsh, Senior Staff member Institute of Psychosynthesis. London. Founder and Director. Synthesis-in-the-City
This book brings the darkness of depression up into the light, illuminating its value and showing how it can contribute to soul growth. It is full of windows into the nature of depression and how it can be seen in a positive light as a contributor to our spiritual journey. Its deep wisdom comes from an author who, like Persephone, has lived for spells in the underworld, but has been able to return and share some valuable insights garnered from that world. --Elizabeth Medler, Editor of New Vision
In re-contextualising Depression as a Spiritual Journey, Stephanie Sorrel's serious and radical book gives patients and health professionals a handbook of hope. --Roger Evans, Co founder and Director of The Institute of Psychosynthesis, co author of The Creative Manager with Peter Russell
This book brings the darkness of depression up into the light, illuminating its value and showing how it can contribute to soul growth. It is full of windows into the nature of depression and how it can be seen in a positive light as a contributor to our spiritual journey. Its deep wisdom comes from an author who, like Persephone, has lived for spells in the underworld, but has been able to return and share some valuable insights garnered from that world. --Elizabeth Medler, Editor of New Vision
In re-contextualising Depression as a Spiritual Journey, Stephanie Sorrel's serious and radical book gives patients and health professionals a handbook of hope. --Roger Evans, Co founder and Director of The Institute of Psychosynthesis, co author of The Creative Manager with Peter Russell
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"Depression as a Spiritual Journey" is the first book to address depression as a spiritual journey in the context of medication and counselling. It serves as an invitation to reframe depression in a new way. Many people resist embracing medication as part of the healing process. Others confuse emotional and mental dis-ease. What is the difference between melancholia and clinical depression? Why do people today suffer from an assortment of depressions rather than good old- fashioned melancholia? What is the difference between psychosis and depression, or the dark night of the soul and depression? What criteria do we use to make these distinctions? Stephanie Sorrell defines some of these distinctions and unearths many of our mindsets that shape our ambivalent attitude to depression. More than anything, Stephanie validates depression as a valuable and integral part of the journey with all its gains, losses and insight. She does not provide easy answers, but encourages the reader to face the very real challenge of working with depression as a spiritual guide and teacher.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
This book is a very welcome and timely contribution to the field. Stephanie Sorrell's voice resonates with personal authority, scholarly clarity and poetic metaphor, to illuminate and inform our relationship with depression. It speaks to those of us who experience depression, those of us who have people in our lives affected by depression, as well as the growing number of psychological therapists working with people with depression. This book is inclusive of different traditions, and the work achieves a rich weaving of threads, which could be seen as disparate, but from which a tapestry is created to contextualise and deepen our understanding of this journey. For clinical psychologists, and other therapists, engaged in the Government's initiatives to address its growing concern about the impact of depression on the nation's mental and economic health, this work will offer a helpful perspective within which to appreciate the role of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, the dominant narrative of today. Crucially, Sorrell reminds us that there is meaning and value in the whole experience of depression, without shying away from the depths of the challenges it presents.
Chris Roberts, Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Chris Roberts, Consultant Clinical Psychologist
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
There are two camps of thought when it comes to depression. Contemporary medicine sees depression as physical issue that needs to be treated with medications and/or psychotherapy. Conversely, those with more spiritual views tend to see depression as part of a spiritual journey.
Depression as a Spiritual Journey suggests that we have to be very careful when choosing our side of the fence. We may be causing ourselves far more harm by not making use of medications because we feel that if we are spiritual enough the depression will naturally go away. By the same token, taking the wrong medications won't help either.
Anyone with depression (or bipolar) issues should read Depression as a Spiritual Journey. This book explores all sides of theses important issues. In doing so, it helps us see depression in a whole new light.
Depression as a Spiritual Journey suggests that we have to be very careful when choosing our side of the fence. We may be causing ourselves far more harm by not making use of medications because we feel that if we are spiritual enough the depression will naturally go away. By the same token, taking the wrong medications won't help either.
Anyone with depression (or bipolar) issues should read Depression as a Spiritual Journey. This book explores all sides of theses important issues. In doing so, it helps us see depression in a whole new light.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
A valuable book on depression that moves away from pathologizing the person. Highly recommend to health professionals, anyone who suffers with depression and for those who care for those suffering.
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