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Rethinking Depression

How to Shed Mental Health Labels and Create Personal Meaning

By: Eric Maisel

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Paperback | 14 February 2012

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In this provocative and path-breaking distillation of a career spent working with individuals seeking help with mood and motivation, Eric Maisel reveals the implications of one of the era's most dramatic cultural shifts. In recent decades, much of the unhappiness inherent in the human condition has been monetized into the disease of depression and related "disorders." Maisel persuasively critiques this sickness model and prescribes a potent new approach that updates the best ideas of modern psychology. The result is a revolutionary reimagining of life's difficulties and a liberating model of self-care that optimizes our innate human ability to create meaning and seize opportunity -- in any circumstance.

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"Raises fundamental questions about the differences between depressive mental disorder and normal sadness...A valuable resource."
-- Allan V. Horwitz, author of Creating Mental Illness

"In this riveting deconstruction of the 'mental health industry, ' Eric Maisel provides essential tools to address human despair. Although it will provoke controversy, Rethinking Depression is one of the most perceptive and accessible guides to life fulfillment that I have ever read."
-- Kirk Schneider, PhD, coauthor of Existential-Humanistic Therapy and author of Awakening to Awe

"Rethinking Depression is an important and timely book that busts numerous myths about why people have the so-called mental illness of depression. Eric Maisel gives readers a path and a language that will help them shine a light on the dark side of unhappiness and move toward a meaningful, self-directed life."
-- Richard Bargdill, membership chair and executive board member, Society for Humanistic Psychology

"An uplifting and practical guide to life and how to live it better. Eric Maisel has made existential thinking accessible to all those who want to live in a more deliberate and engaged fashion."
-- Emmy van Deurzen, principal, New School of Psychotherapy and Counseling, London, and author of Psychotherapy and the Quest for Happiness

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Non-Fiction Family & Health Coping with / Advice about Personal, Social & Health Topics Coping with / Advice about Illness & Specific Health Conditions Psychology Abnormal Psychology Self-Help, Personal Development & Practical Advice Popular Psychology Medicine Medicine in General Health Systems & Services Mental Health Services

Introduction: The Reality of Unhappiness	p. 1
Rethinking Depression
Creating Mental Disorders	p. 9
What Do "Treatments" Really Do?	p. 27
Fifteen Reasons Why People Believe That "Depression" Exists	p. 39
Your Existential Plan
The Existential Ideal - and Its Reality	p. 49
You Look Life in the Eye	p. 63
You Investigate Meaning	p. 69
You Decide to Matter	p. 75
You Accept Your Obligation to Make Meaning	p. 83
You Decide How to Matter	p. 89
You Honor Your Wants, Needs, and Values	p. 97
You Create a Life-Purpose Vision	p. 105
You Use Your Existential Intelligence	p. 115
You Focus on Meaning Rather Than Mood	p. 123
You Snap Out of Trance	p. 129
You Reckon with the Facts of Existence	p. 135
You Personalize a Vocabulary of Meaning	p. 141
You Incant Meaning	p. 151
You Maintain a Morning Meaning Practice	p. 157
You Negotiate Each Day	p. 163
You Seize Meaning Opportunities	p. 169
You Handle Meaning Crises	p. 177
You Engage in Existential Self-Care	p. 187
You Engage in Cognitive Self-Care	p. 193
You Engage in Behavioral Self-Care	p. 201
Conclusion: Cracking the Depression Code	p. 207
Notes	p. 213
Bibliography	p. 217
Index	p. 225
About the Author	p. 237
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