The Mindful Way Through Depression

[hypno-therapist]

The Mindful Way Through Depression is one of the first books that introduced me to Mindfulness.

The Mindful Way Through Depression is co-authored by J. Mark G. Williams, John D. Teasdale, Zindel V. Segal, and Jon Kabat-Zinn.

It comes with a free CD that is recorded by Jon Kabat-Zinn.

I give this book 5 stars as it is a great introduction into mindfulness for those who suffer with depression.

You can view The Mindful Way Through Depression here on - Amazon.com – Amazon.co.uk

I would be interested to here any comments from any others that have read The Mindful Way Through Depression

[hypno-therapist]

Hi all,

I stuck a review up for this book today at amazon and thought I would paste it here for your benefit too...

Before I start I just have to say that this book is FANTASTIC and is a really exciting step forward in the treatment of depression. At last - a non-drug approach to one of societies most overwhelming problems: Depression.

As a person who has suffered from depression in the past and as a therapist, I truly enjoyed this book from start to finish. It told me all I needed to know about mindfulness and taught me the process in a very comprehensive yet easy to follow way.

I had read several books on mindfulness by various authors before receiving this book. Compared against the others that I read, I found this one to be the most clear, so even if you do not suffer from depression, but are looking to learn mindfulness, this book could be just what you are looking for. The other bonus with this title is that it is not repetitive like similar titles I have read – it just tells you what you need to know.

Some observations that I would make though are as follows.

1. There were a few spelling and grammar mistakes throughout, however they didn’t affect my ‘reading flow’, so this should be an issue.
2. The layout of the separate sections could have been better laid out. It shows you how to follow an 8 week program in the end of the last chapter. I would have liked to seen it laid out so that you read and practice a section at a time rather than learning everything before you start.
3. There is a warning in a couple of places in the book that warn you not to us the program in is entirely now if you are experiencing an episode of clinical depression. This somewhat confused me as the title of the book is ‘The Mindful Way THROUGH Depression.
4. The book comes with a CD… It was recorded using the voice of one of the authors, Jon Kabat Zinn. The meditation entitled ‘The Body Scan’ seemed a little rushed. As a personal preference, I used an old CD that I had from Jon that was much better quality for me and worked well.

These were the only negative things that I picked up and wanted to include them to make this review as balanced as possible. There were so many things right with this book though that the comments above are small concerns against all the things that you will get out of reading it.

So in conclusion: this book is easy to follow, very inspirational and motivates you to learn mindfulness and overcome your depression. It is simply fantastic.