Sacred Sorrows

Sacred Sorrows
Embracing & Transforming Depression

Edited by John E Nelson, M.D., and Andrea Nelson, Psy.D

From the Back Cover

From Depression to Enlightenment

Few maladies touch so many aspects of body, mind, and spirit as depression. Depression creates a vicious cycle of boredom, loneliness, anxiety, despair, maningless, and feelings of inadequacy. Its pervasive grip can lead to eating disorders, lack of initiative, addictions, and physical illness, at the cose of one’s livelihood, relationships, and even life itself.
This insightful and compassionate collection of essays includes stories by authors who not only struggled with and overcame depression, but learned to look deep within themselves to find meaning and enlightenment, using their darkest moments a vehicles for psychological and spiritual growth. From Prozac to LSD, from behaviorism to chaos theory, from body-work to Buddhism, the author in this anthology present new ways of embracing and transforming depression, an ailment that touches nearly every one of us at some time in our lives.
Sacred Sorrows is essential reading for anyone suffering from depression, for students of psychology, and for therapists who help others cope with this devastating condition.

Contributors

Eric Fromm – Peter Kramer – Thomas Moore – Joanna Macy – William Styron – Roberto Assagioli – Bruno Bettelheim – Steven Levine – David Burns – Martha Manning – Alexander Lowen – Kaathy Cronkite – Michael Washburn – Connie Zweig – Hyla Cass – John Wellwood – Mark Epstein – David Rosen – Linda Schierse Leonard – Beverly Lockwood-Conlan – Francoise O’Kane – Shyloh Ravenswood – Caryn Levington – Frank Gruba-McAllister – and others.

1996 — Tarcher/Putnam Books, 237 pages. From the New Consciousness Reader series.

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Barbara Davis-Thompson Amazon.com reviewer wrote:

This is the definitive, readable book on depression that runs the gamut from personal experience of it, to listing medical symptoms, categories and conservative to alternative cures, to embracing the process of it as the spiritual initiation and psychological rebirth that it can be. Each of the many authors who shared either personal experience, knowledge, medical or alternative healing techniques or understanding of the process of depression offer the reader a rich tapestry of information to include concentration camp experience, mid-life depression, substance abuse and depression, treatments of depression from shock to antidepressant medication, medical causes that may bring it on and varied approaches to transforming it as well as understanding its regenerative value. The book has three segments: Living with Depression, Transforming it and Embracing it filled with twenty-seven insightful and often compelling essays by a wide variety of authors. This book will grow your understanding by leaps and bounds of this ailment that not only touches all of us at some point in our lives but is also the USA's third most prevalent medical problem. The book is suberbly informative.

Star Review - Kirkus Reviews