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| Author | : Gwyneth Lewis |
| Publisher | : Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2006-11-15 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1846426499 |
Sunbathing in the Rain is undoubtedly the best book I have ever read about one person's experience of depression.' - Dorothy Rowe, author of Breaking the Bonds 'This upbeat, very readable and engaging view of depression as a temporary retrenchment, a breathing space in which to adjust better to life, makes encouraging reading.' - Spectator 'Gwyneth Lewis writes with clarity, beauty and metaphorical precision. She conveys the darkness, the silence, the selfishness, the mental clutter of depression brilliantly.' - Simon Hattenstone, Guardian 'Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis shares her personal story of wrestling with clinical depression and describes what she learned along the way about coping with the disease. The text is aimed primarily at those who are currently depressed and are struggling to recover. The emphasis throughout is on the healing power of self-acceptance and truth-telling. This is a reprint of a book first published in London by Flamingo in 2002.' - www.booknews.com This might well be the Age of Depression. More people than ever now experience the disease directly or see a friend or relative succumb to it. Among their number is Gwyneth Lewis. And she set about writing this book simply because she wished something like it had existed for her when she was in the middle of her depression. Depression is assassination. The depressive is both victim and detective - charged with tracking down the perpetrator of his or her own murder. By drawing on her own experience of struggling with the affliction, by highlighting ways of coping, ways of truth-telling, and ways of thriving, in a straightforward, robust fashion full of casual wisdom and easy wit, Gwyneth re-embarks on a journey that nearly killed her first time round and returns with this, perhaps the first truly undogmatic, undemanding, downright useful book about depression.
| Author | : Gwyneth Lewis |
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| Release | : 2011 |
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| Author | : Jim Green |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2019-03-07 |
| Genre | : Self-Help |
| ISBN | : 1472957466 |
'What if the suffering that we call depression contains experiences and lessons without which we cannot be fully alive?' This is one of the many startling questions that Giving Up Without Giving Up invites us to ask ourselves. Depression seems to be a contemporary epidemic, a condition understandably feared and avoided by all. Yet this book explores the possibility that we have much to learn from the desert times in our lives, when it feels as though we are losing everything, most of all any sense of who we are. Drawing on his extensive experience of meditation within both the Buddhist and Christian contemplative traditions, as well as his own times of personal loss and bewilderment, Jim Green offers us a moving account of just how this wisdom practice can accompany each of us as we make 'the gentle pilgrimage of recovery'. He guides us through 'the invention of depression' in the mid-twentieth century, questioning the increasing tendency to medicalize human suffering. Based on the insight that 'Life is the Treatment', he offers a thorough and practical approach to our times of personal desolation, showing how we can learn to treat ourselves and each other with care and compassion. At the heart of this approach is the practice of meditation, learned from the Buddha, The Desert Fathers and Mothers and from Jesus himself. It's a practice which, this heartfelt book insists, can help you 'to be depressed – which might mean in mourning – for exactly as long as you need to be, no longer and no shorter. Then, changed, you are brought back to life, which is change itself.'
| Author | : Gwyneth Lewis |
| Publisher | : Seren |
| Total Pages | : 71 |
| Release | : 2013-03-30 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1781721254 |
A retelling of the Mabinogion fourth branch, including the story of Blodeuwedd, a woman made of flowers. A dangerous tale of desire, DNA, incest and flowers plays out withing he wreckage of an ancient spaceship in The Meat Tree; an absorbing retelling of one of the best know Welsh myths from prize-winning writer and poet, Gwyneth Lewis. An elderly investigator and his female apprentice hope to extract the fate of the ship's crew from its antiquated virtual reality game systrem, but their empirical approach falters as the story tangles with their own imagination.
| Author | : Lisa Westberg Peters |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 1990-09-15 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 0805014810 |
An American Bookseller "Pick of the Lists"
| Author | : Dorothy Rowe |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 343 |
| Release | : 2003-09-02 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1135452008 |
Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison gives us a way of understanding our depression which matches our experience and which enables us to take charge of our life and change it. Dorothy Rowe shows us that depression is not an illness or a mental disorder but a defence against pain and fear, which we can use whenever we suffer a disaster and discover that our life is not what we thought it was. Depression is an unwanted consequence of how we see ourselves and the world. By understanding how we have interpreted events in our life we can choose to change our interpretations and thus create for ourselves a happier, more fulfilling life. Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison is for depressed people, their family and friends, and for all professionals and non-professionals who work with depressed people.
| Author | : Robbie Arnott |
| Publisher | : FSG Originals |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2021-02-09 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0374722897 |
"Astonishing...With the intensity of a perfect balance between the mythic and the real, The Rain Heron keeps turning and twisting, taking you to unexpected places. A deeply emotional and satisfying read. Beautifully written." --Jeff VanderMeer, author of Borne. One of LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of 2021. A gripping novel of myth, environment, adventure, and an unlikely friendship, from an award-winning Australian author Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup d'état. High on the forested slopes, she survives by hunting, farming, trading, and forgetting the contours of what was once a normal life. But her quiet stability is disrupted when an army unit, led by a young female soldier, comes to the mountains on government orders in search of a legendary creature called the rain heron—a mythical, dangerous, form-shifting bird with the ability to change the weather. Ren insists that the bird is simply a story, yet the soldier will not be deterred, forcing them both into a gruelling quest. Spellbinding and immersive, Robbie Arnott’s The Rain Heron is an astounding, mythical exploration of human resilience, female friendship, and humankind’s precarious relationship to nature. As Ren and the soldier hunt for the heron, a bond between them forms, and the painful details of Ren’s former life emerge—a life punctuated by loss, trauma, and a second, equally magical and dangerous creature. Slowly, Ren's and the soldier’s lives entwine, unravel, and ultimately erupt in a masterfully crafted ending in which both women are forced to confront their biggest fears—and regrets. Robbie Arnott, one of Australia’s most acclaimed young novelists, sews magic into reality with a steady, confident hand. Bubbling with rare imagination and ambition, The Rain Heron is an emotionally charged and dazzling novel, one that asks timely yet eternal questions about environment, friendship, nationality, and the myths that bind us.
| Author | : Sameer Kochure |
| Publisher | : Sameer Kochure |
| Total Pages | : 69 |
| Release | : 2024-01-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
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Short stories that feel like they speak directly to you. Because, they do. Welcome to Volume 8 of an inspiring, feel good, mental health fable about conquering life's biggest challenges and finding love and happiness. Featuring two crazy-cool, lovely best friends, this quick and easy to read spiritual fable is full of surprising wisdom, lovely little moments of childlike innocence and big life lessons. Travel through life's travesties through the innocent eyes of a young boy. Often lost and confused by everything that goes on around him, the young boy feels blessed to have a dear friend, the Universe by his side. The young boy's best friend, the Universe knows everything but doesn't show off, like a true friend. Fall in love with these two unique characters as they laugh, cry and play together. Discover a friendship that will leave you longing for a similar friendship in your own life. And don't be too surprised if you find yourself in the young boy's shoes once too often. That's when you'll find yourself closest to your new best friend. These books can be read and enjoyed in any order. ★★★★★ The playfulness of Calvin and Hobbes meets the wisdom of Kahlil Gibran’s Prophet. Here’s a book that will inspire, empower and entertain you. A work of surprising innocence and staggering depth, it’s a timely antidote for the uncertain times we live in. If you enjoy books like The Alchemist, The Little Prince, and Calvin and Hobbes, then this book will have you turning pages and while doing a happy dance. ★★★★★ PRAISE FOR THE SERIES: "The story went straight to my heart." - Amazon review. "It's a soothing read… instantly puts a smile on your face! :)" - Pooja Ambulkar, Pune. “Very cute… I recommend it to everyone… if you had a bad day or a good one.” - Amazon review “…this book will make you happy.” - Amazon review ★★★★★ Don’t miss out on this beautiful friendship. Get this book now and find out why people around the world are falling in love with these two unique characters.
| Author | : Julie Hollenbach |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 233 |
| Release | : 2021-09-21 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 3030805549 |
What is depression? An “imagined sun, bright and black at the same time?” A “noonday demon?” In literature, poetry, comics, visual art, and film, we witness new conceptualizations of depression come into being. Unburdened by diagnostic criteria and pharmaceutical politics, these media employ imagery, narrative, symbolism, and metaphor to forge imaginative, exploratory, and innovative representations of a range of experiences that might get called “depression.” Texts such as Julia Kristeva’s Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia (1989), Andrew Solomon’s The Noonday Demon (2000), Allie Brosh’s cartoons, “Adventures in Depression” (2011) and “Depression Part Two” (2013), and Lars von Trier’s film Melancholia (2011) each offer portraits of depression that deviate from, or altogether reject, the dominant language of depression that has been articulated by and within psychiatry. Most recently, Ann Cvetkovich’s Depression: A Public Feeling (2012) has answered the author’s own call for a multiplication of discourses on depression by positing crafting as one possible method of working through depression-as-“impasse.” Inspired by Cvetkovich’s efforts to re-shape the depressive experience itself and the critical ways in which we communicate this experience to others, Re/Imagining Depression: Creative Approaches to “Feeling Bad” harnesses critical theory, gender studies, critical race theory, affect theory, visual art, performance, film, television, poetry, literature, comics, and other media to generate new paradigms for thinking about the depressive experience. Through a combination of academic essays, prose, poetry, and interviews, this anthology aims to destabilize the idea of the mental health “expert” to instead demonstrate the diversity of affects, embodiments, rituals and behaviors that are often collapsed under the singular rubric of “depression.”
| Author | : Michael Pinchbeck |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2018-11-11 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 3319979701 |
This book locates and critically theorises an emerging field of twenty-first century theatre practice concerned, either thematically, methodologically, or formally, with acts of commemoration and the commemorative. With notions of memorial, celebration, temporality and remembrance at its heart, and as a timely topic for debate, this book asks how theatre and performance intersects with commemorative acts or rituals in contemporary theatre and performance practice. It considers the (re)performance of history, commemoration as a form of, or performance of, ritual, performance as memorial, performance as eulogy and eulogy as performance. It asks where personal acts of remembrance merge with public or political acts of remembrance, where the boundary between the commemorative and the performative might lie, and how it might be blurred, broken or questioned. It explores how we might remake the past in the present, to consider not just how performance commemorates but how commemoration performs.
