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"It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours."
- William E. Channing
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| | Undercurrents:
A Therapist's Reckoning with Her Own Depression
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ZIN Product Number: 10009173
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 208 pages
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
ISBN: 006251184X
Release Date: Jan 3, 2000
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 3 reviews.)
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The author recounts her experiences of clinical depression and her treatment and recovery.
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Depression transformed Martha Manning from a happy, healthy, and successful wife, mother, professor, and psychotherapist who "lived with the innocent arrogance that [her] life was the simple product of [her] effort, will, and design" to a sleepwalker haunted by thoughts of suicide, "a house of cards, held precariously by the fragile conspiracy of wind, weight, and angle." Undercurrents chronicles this transformation through Manning's startlingly funny, deeply affecting, and always honest journal entries. Outlining the depths and dimensions of severe clinical depression, Manning's quick wit and razor-sharp powers of observation allow us to laugh at and empathize with the mounting disarray in her life: insurmountable household clutter, nightly insomnia, manic, caffeine-fueled efforts to meet deadlines. We understand her terror as she evaluates a new patient only to realize that she herself meets all of the textbook criteria of depression, and feel her nowhere-to-turn despair as she is forced to acknowledge that the love of her family, the support of her therapist, and the exhaustive drug treatments administered by her psychiatrist are not succeeding in stemming the tide of her disease. Finally, Manning agrees to electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT. Notorious for its past abuses, its safety and efficacy open to debate, this controversial treatment becomes her last resort and only hope.
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Manning's Undercurrents A Must Read
-- Amanda Lowrey, a 19 year old WI college student, February 29, 2000
Also Recommended: Chasing Grace-Also by Martha Manning The Bell Jar-Sylvia Plath
Honest and Fascinating
-- Bob, an engineer in the midwest, November 13, 2001
Also Recommended: The Rooms of Heaven by Mary Allen; The Quiet Room by Lori Schiller; The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Read this book to understand depression better!
-- Patrick E. Wadsworth, a United Methodist minister in La., March 13, 2000
Also Recommended: Hart, Archibald--Coping with Depression in the Ministry and Other Helping Professions.
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
One of my favorite books in a long time...brilliant, painful, beautiful. I laughed out loud. —Anne Lamott
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