- ISBN13: 9780345435170
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
In this groundbreaking book, nutritionist Joan Mathews Larson, Ph.D., founder of Minnesota's esteemed Health Recovery Center, offers her revolutionary formulas for healing your emotions--biochemically. Through proven all-natural formulas, Seven Weeks to Emotional Healing will help you find the emotional well-being you've been missing your entire life. Inside you'll discover how to
- Screen yourself for emotional and behavioral symptoms
- Recognize the men... More >>
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The pretentiousness and shoddiness of this book are made clear from the title. The very idea that we can become completely free of depression is itself problematic, given that we have so much trouble defining it. The textbook says depression begins when five of nine depressive symptoms are experienced. But what is magic about five from nine? Depression is hard to distinguish, moreover, from grief: persons are prescribed anti-depressants for such grief all the time. “Naturally” suggests another harmful implication of the book: that medications should have the stigma of “artificiality.” Naturalness means little. Many things native to nature kill you, and we have the godgiven intelligence to alter the way our brains work. Again, depression cannot be eliminated, nor would we want to submit to the kind of mindless drabness that life would be like without ever feeling a bit of it. This book portends to be a crusade against the mindlessness of drug therapy. Whatever the excesses of anti-depressants may or may not be, this book substitutes a linguistic for a psychological mindlessness. More, it is complicit in the mindlessness of wanting to eliminate pain.
Rating: 1 / 5
I bought this book on Friday, read it over the weekend, andreturned it on Monday. I just can’t see tying myself to takingmegadoses of expensive vitamins several times a day – just trying to remember when to take what would be stressful! There were a few goods points, which is why I gave the book one star, but for the most part I was totally unimpressed. Also, some of the recommendations were disturbing – tryptophan is available only by prescription for a reason. Save your money!
Rating: 1 / 5
I suppose I really shouldn’t be reviewing a book that I’ve only skimmed through, but it has already affected my anxiety level. I’m going through an extremely anxious and depressed time right now and for the first time, the anti-depressants aren’t sending me on my way emotionally. The number of potential defiencies and their natural treatments are overwhelming and I’m finding myself tormented by the “what if she’s right and I need to spend all this money and determine which apply to me” thoughts. If this could help, it would be worth the money, but I can’t help wondering if I’m being duped. What’s the Truth?
Rating: 1 / 5
I bought the book this week but I found that I could not get past all of the exclamation points!!! which made it seem like an infomercial hawking the Center and the book itself. There seems to be plenty of solid advice but the constant insult of exclamation points made it impossible for me to take seriously.
Rating: 3 / 5
The book is very interesting and certainly has merit. Most of the diet recommendations would not work for me because of dairy, cholesterol, sugar, and arthritis issues.
If the author could find a diet that more people could be on or more choices in the diet, I might have followed it.
I did take the time to fill out the questions, and found the results interesting. Worth getting the book, just for this.
Rating: 3 / 5