Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: The Roots of Sorrow: Nature's Effects and Nuture's Choices
1. Falling into Darkness: The Experience of Depression
2. Rising into Light: Bipolar Swings, Mania and Happiness
3. A Mind Diseased: Genes, Chemicals and Other Mysteries
4. Some Rooted Sorrows: Childhood, Thought Patterns and Relationships
5. Loss, Sorrow and Grief: Inevitable Pain in a Broken World
6. Suicide: The Final Solution?
Part Two: Coping with the Dark and Moving Toward the Light
7. Breaking Points and Suicidal Saints
8. Coping with Anxiety, Worry and Fear
9. Anger and the Struggle to Forgive
10. The Tangled Web of Guilt and Shame
11. Reducing Vulnerability and Moving Toward Healing
12. Hope and Light in the Darkness
Appendix: Are Darker Forces at Work in Depression? On Spiritual Warfare
Notes
Name Index
Subject Index
Scripture Index

About the Author

Dr. Richard Winter is a psychotherapist, counselor and professor of practical theology at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. A native of Britain, he trained in medicine and psychiatry in England and has lived in the United States since 1992. His books include Still Bored in a Culture of Entertainment and Perfecting Ourselves to Death.

Reviews

"Winter's excellent book deals comprehensively with a topic affecting many people: He treats in a balanced way the role of nature and nurture, and explains differences between sadness, grief, and depression."
*Susan Olasky, World Magazine, January 26, 2013*

"Winter helpfully surveys the field, explaining current understandings and research, sprinkling his exposition with illustrations drawn from his own life, both as a psychiatrist and as someone who has suffered major depression. He also draws on scripture, which can be particularly helpful to those who are religious and can find some relief and echo in the groaning and lamenting that scripture gives voice to."
*Publishers Weekly, May 21, 2012*

"If you're looking for a book to help you learn how to help those suffering with depression, this will offer you valuable insight medically, psychologically and spiritually."
*Adam Griffin, YouthWorker Journal, May/June 2012*