Depressive Brains

Do you want to know, perhaps feel entitled to know, all that is known and understood about depressive illness (more commonly, and feebly, called depression)?Mark Lawry, after too many years of affliction, certainly did. Mark could not find a book that provided the comprehensive guide that he sought. Armed with whatever skills being a city lawyer might have given him, he researched for himself - digesting over 160 books. Depressive Brains makes available to anyone interested all that Mark has learned about depressive illness from his extensive and wide-ranging research, focussing on:

• the nature of depressive illness
• the centrality of brain function
• the crucial role of the unconscious
• the causes of depressive illness and
• the effectiveness of treatments.

To Mark it seems apparent that the experience of depression emanates from the brain, and its product the mind - where else? He therefore sought to understand what is known about how the brain works. To understand the experience of depressive illness, beyond his own, he studied numerous accounts of other sufferers' struggles. Depressive Brains includes fascinating insights from these writers' experiences. The experiences are varied and are unique to each individual, yet all demonstrate a remarkable and consistent core set of characteristics.  The coherence of reported experiences across thousands of years and across cultures demonstrates, beyond doubt, that depressive illness is an all too real thing.The question then is what causes this suffering. 

Depressive Brains explores all that anyone knows.

Read Depressive Brains and you won't (necessarily) have to read the other 160 books Mark digested!