title: Overcoming Depression: The Definitive Resource for Patients and Families Who Live with Depression and Manic-Depression
author: Demitri Papolos
description: "Helpful and practical information for depressed persons and their families.""--Los Angeles Times"""Overcoming Depression is now"the book, the first book that should be read by laypersons and all health professionals who are concerned with depressive illness in all its forms.""--National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Newsletter""Concise, clearly written, and up-to-date. An excellent resource for patients and families afflicted by depression and manic-depressive illness."--E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., author of"Surviving Schizophrenia"This is the best book on depression for general audiences that I have ever seen....I strongly recommend this book."--Robert M.A. Hirschfeld, M.D., chairman, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Texas at Galveston"The most comprehensive book available for the layperson on depression. A storehouse of useful, indeed essential, information."--Donald F. Klein, M.D., Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
zlib_text: Marital	and	Family	Therapy	for
  Depression
  Ian	H.	Gotlib,	Pamela	M.	Wallace,	and
  Catherine	A.	Colby
  
  e-Book	2015	International	Psychotherapy	Institute
  freepsychotherapybooks.org
  From	Depressive	Disorders	edited	by	Benjamin	Wolberg	&	George	Stricker
  Copyright	©	1990	by	John	Wiley	&	Sons,	Inc.
  All	Rights	Reserved
  Created	in	the	United	States	of	America
  
  Table	of	Contents
  INCIDENCE
  THE	FAMILY	RELATIONSHIPS	OF	DEPRESSED	PERSONS
  MARITAL	AND	FAMILY	THERAPY
  CASE	EXAMPLE
  SUMMARY
  REFERENCES
  
  Marital	and	Family	Therapy	for	Depression[1]
  INCIDENCE
  Depression	 is	 the	 most	 common	 of	 all	 the	 psychiatric	 disorders,	 and	 is
  perhaps	the	most	lethal.	It	has	been	estimated	that	one	in	five	depressed	persons
  receives	psychiatric	treatment,	that	one	in	50	is	hospitalized,	and	that	one	in	100
  commits	 suicide.	 Each	 year,	 more	 than	 100	 million	 people	 worldwide	 develop
  clinically	 recognizable	 depression,	 an	 incidence	 10	 times	 greater	 than	 that	 of
  schizophrenia.	 Furthermore,	 the	 W