Title: for MILD "depression" only
Review: While there are some useful cognitive therapies in this book, it's really aimed at people with mild depression -- which wasn't made clear until about a third of the way through the book, which was frustrating to me (I was reading and thinking, "I do not see [beloved of mine who struggles with severe depression] in here at all"). While the author talks about depression as distinct from, for example, healthy grief, and takes seriously the utility of, for example, antidepressant medications, the book generally seems to me to skew too far toward thinking yourself out of depression and isn't attentive enough to the reality of e.g. neurochemical factors beyond the sufferer's control.
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