Synopses & Reviews
Maybe you are one of the more than 45 million people in the United States who is currently struggling with depression. Maybe anxiety keeps you from truly enjoying your job, your relationships, your life. Maybe every change you have tried to make seems to have failed and you are beginning to feel as if change is simply not possible.
Author David J. Hellerstein uses the term New Neuropsychiatry to refer to a dramatically different approach to help people who have depression and anxiety disorders. Unlike Old Psychiatry, which often focused on early life issues, the New Neuropsychiatry focuses on improving present-day life and on achieving long-term remission of symptoms. Heal Your Brain combines the advances of neuroscience and medicine with the art of the storyteller to show how the New Neuropsychiatry can alter the course of your life.
Dr. Hellerstein, a psychiatrist at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, puts this new form of psychiatry to the test. Depression and anxiety disorders damage the brain, but as Dr. Hellerstein explains, the right treatment can change the patterns of brain activity, brain cell connections, and even the brain's anatomy. To illustrate, he relates the stories of people as they travel through various phases of New Neuropsychiatry treatment, from evaluation to therapy to remission, and illustrates how this approach can help you progress through each phase as well.
The book's compelling narrative demonstrates that, in many cases, it is possible to achieve a stable recovery and return to -- or even experience for the first time -- a life free of crippling anxiety and depression.
Synopsis
Over 45 million people currently experience some form of depression or anxiety in the United States alone. For these people and their loved ones, Heal Your Brain offers a practical guide to better outcomes in the treatment of these often-disabling disorders.
Heal Your Brain is based on principles of the New Neuropsychiatry -- a model emerging from advances in neuroscience and related scientific disciplines. This revolutionary way of thinking applies new insights about mind/brain/body interactions to various treatment options, including medication, psychotherapy, and behavioral intervention, to bring about the best possible results.
Here, Dr. David J. Hellerstein, a psychiatrist at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, puts the New Neuropsychiatry to the test. Depression and anxiety damage the brain, but, as Dr. Hellerstein explains, the right treatment can change the patterns of brain activity, brain cell connections, and even the brain's anatomy. To illustrate, Dr. Hellerstein follows people through various phases of treatment -- from evaluation to therapy to remission. The book's compelling narratives show that, in many cases, it is possible to achieve a stable recovery and a return to normal life.
Engaging, scientifically accurate, and clinically astute, Heal Your Brain leads those suffering from depression and anxiety disorders toward a meaningful and satisfying recovery.