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Healing Anxiety and Depression | 
 enlarge | Authors: Daniel G. Amen, Lisa C. Routh
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 1204
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 0425198448
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.85206
EAN: 9780425198445
ASIN: 0425198448
Publication Date: December 7, 2004
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Dr. Daniel Amen-a pioneer in uncovering the connections between the brain and behavior-presents his revolutionary approach to treating anxiety and depressive disorders. Healing Anxiety and Depression reveals the major anxiety and depression centers of the brain, offers guidelines and diagnostic tools to determine the specific type of anxiety and depression, and provides a comprehensive program for treating each type. Based on new brain science-and featuring treatment plans that include medication, diet, supplements, exercise, and social and therapeutic support-this groundbreaking book will help readers conquer these potentially devastating disorders and change the way they think about anxiety and depression.
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 Dense, Informative & Caring December 4, 2008
Before beginning, I need to express my personal opinions regarding the use of medications to "treat" emotional issues. One would hope that drugs would only be used as a last resort, and not as the go-to strategy, especially with emotional issues. Mountains of research exist to support the use of all sorts of different therapy methods for emotional issues, mood disorders, and even the personality disorders etc.. It's very common to go with meds more quickly when dealing with the personality disorders, but certainly mood disorders, emotional problems etc., shouldn't need to go to the meds quite so quickly. Emotional issues can be dispatched with quite quickly and easily without the use of drugs. Personality disorders can be too, but I do understand that personality disorders do on occasion, require a bit more therapeutic effort than a typical mood disorders might.
I'm not necessarily suggesting that mood disorders are any less troubling to their sufferers, than personality disorders are, but simply that traditionally, mood disorders might be considered less complicated to figure out than a personality disorder can sometimes be.
My only other apprehension is that brain scans, although impressive to look at, are incredibly subjective and unreliable in my and many other opinions. This author does however seem to rely on them heavily. Having said that, he has much more knowledge and experience with brain scan than I do and presumably has strong reasons for his convictions and loyalty to them, which leads very nicely into why I DO like this book...
Dr. Amen has successfully demonstrated his high level of expertise and experience in these matters, but more telling for me possibly is his obvious passion and personal commitment to helping people suffering from mental and emotional afflictions.
My respect for him is through the roof. I consider him to be a man with the utmost professionalism and the possessor of unscrupulously high level of compassion for the human experience and those not enjoying it quite as well as they might otherwise be.
My most excited opinions of this book are in regard to its intentions to educate. This book is dense with really good information and science and offers the reader an exceptionally thorough accounting of the many and varied components of anxiety & depression.
Overall I was extremely satisfied, entertained and informed by this offering by the good doctor. It's a heartfelt journey of literary "caring" and commitment.
-Sarah Shikitao-Brown,
Tao Cycle Therapy: Natural Happiness via Self Directed Cure for Chronic Anxiety & Depression [Updated 2008 3nd Edition]
 My books of the month November 24, 2008
My past months pick for best books are the two SKBF Publishing's best selling which was recommended by anther reader and I am glad I listened
1)Rumi & Self Psychology (Psychology of Tranquility)
2)Sara's Therapy: The Way to Purity (A session by session therapy for self growth)
And two other books
3) Seat of the Soul
4)Changing your anxious mind
Who am I? No one important, just read a lot of books about psychology and spirituality and science. I love telling people about the books I like.
 Cheap advertisement for the Amen Clinic August 30, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
The book reads like a pamphlet advertising the Amen Clinics. At the Amen Clinics this and at the Amen Clinics that, give me a break. This guy can't go half a page without tooting his own horn. You would think that everywhere except the Amen Clinics, the treatment of mental disorders is by witch doctors and alchemists. The books makes a big deal about the use of brain scanning and how this is such a big advantage for their clinic. They shame insurance companies for not reimbursing payment and other doctors for not using the technique, but read closely. In the end, they still the patients are still treated just like anywhere else, symptomatically. One word for this book: lame.
Amen July 19, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I enjoy reading the books written by Dr. Amen.
He writes so the lay person can understand and so the professional does not get bored. This book has been very helpful to many people.
 Decent Material For Beginners January 11, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I had knowledge on this subject for years, so most of the material written in this book was mainly old news to me. Most of the material in this book is an overview of the disorders and a lot of pics of brain scans. (Including before and after shots) There is a lot of talk about medication as well and different categories of antidepressants. Honestly there isn't that much extra material that books like "Don't Panic" doesn't cover (although this book isn't as dry as "Don't Panic"). If you are new to all of this, then it's is a decent read. If you been dealing with this for quite a while now, chances are that your doctor has found the right meds for you and that you've been properly diagnosed. You may want a book that goes a little deeper in the topics of "rational vs irrational thoughts", "self-esteem", or "phobias". I gave this book 3 stars only because I was expecting more with all the 5-star reviews and didn't pick-up anything new, but it's a good book if you are new to all of this and want a primer about the road that's ahead of you.
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