A groundbreaking, inspiring, and practical guide to healing depression without the use of antidepressants, from world-renowned, Harvard trained psychiatrist Dr. James S. Gordon

Each year, as many as twenty million Americans are diagnosed with clinical depression. Tens of millions more have low energy or feel unhappy and dissatisfied with their lives. And each year, American doctors write 189 million prescriptions for antidepressant drugs for these people. Dr. James Gordon, a Harvard Medical School-educated psychiatrist who founded and directs The Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, D.C., has been helping his patients find their way out of the darkness of depression for the past forty years. He has worked with everyone from high-powered Washington politicians to Hurricane Katrina victims, from overstressed doctors, lawyers, and stay-at-home moms to orphans from war-ravaged Kosovo and Gaza. Each one of Dr. Gordon’s patients is unique, but all suffer from some level of depression, and none are getting relief from the antidepressant drugs their doctors keep prescribing or the psychotherapy they’ve been receiving.

One of our country’s most distinguished psychiatrists and a pioneer in integrative medicine, Dr. Gordon believes that depression is not an end point, a disease over which we have no control. It is a sign that our lives are out of balance, that we’re stuck. It’s a wake-up call and the start of a journey that can help us become whole and happy, one that can change and transform our lives. Unstuck is a practical, easy-to-use guide explaining the seven stages of Dr. Gordon’s approach and the steps we can take to exert control over our own lives and find hope and happiness. Unstuck is designed for anyone who is suffering from depression, from mild subclinical depression (“the blues”) to its severest forms.

Dr. Gordon shows us how doctors and patients alike have come to depend on antidepressants, and how these drugs have disappointed so many. He then carefully links each of his seven stages to helpful suggestions for relieving depression’s symptoms. Using dramatic and inspiring examples from the patients he has worked with over the years, he explains the useful, mood-healing benefits of: food and nutritional supplements; Chinese medicine; movement, exercise, and dance; psychotherapy, meditation and guided imagery; and spiritual practice and prayer. He concludes each chapter with a carefully designed Prescription for Self-Care, guidelines to help each person play an active, effective role in their own healing. The result is Unstuck, an incredibly thoughtful, practical, and meditative guide to the difficult but rewarding journey out of depression. James

作者简介

詹姆斯·s·戈登，教授，毕业于哈佛医学院，精神病学家，曾任美国白宫补充和替代医学政策委员会主席，是世界知名的心身互动医学（Mind-body Medicine）治疗抑郁症、焦虑和精神创伤的专家。40多年来，戈登教授一直致力于帮助抑郁症患者找到不使用抗抑郁药而走出抑郁阴影的途径。

编辑推荐

抑郁不是病，而是我们人生旅行中不期而遇的旅伴。它会让我们痛苦、烦恼，也会桎梏我们的精神和思想。尽管不喜欢，但既然遇上，何不把它当做旅行中一次冒险的尝试。

作者戈登教授是全球知名的身心医学专家，也患过抑郁症，但最终通过自我开发的非药物模式治愈。本书是其首次将其自助治疗模式呈现给读者，同时对当下十分流行的抑郁症医疗模式，以及普遍应用甚至用蔓延的抗抑郁药物的使用发起挑战。

此书在美国出版后，得到多位知名专家的好评，现译成中文出版，希望可以对中文读者有所裨益。读者也可以从书中领略东西方文化的差异以及由此产生的特色治疗理念。

心身医学指的是心灵之间的交互,身体和精神,特别的情感、心理、社会和精神因素可以直接影响健康。身心医学在国际上的运用日益普遍起来。

有许多研究发现身心医学在以下领域有用的,包括:

高血压

哮喘

冠心病

肥胖

失眠

焦虑

糖尿病

胃和肠道问题

更年期症状