Contents

• What is depression?
• Depression is a serious mental illness /Margaret Strock
• Dysthymia : a lasting depressed mood /Harvard Mental Health Letter
• Depression through history /Dan G. Blazer
• Depression’s role in bodily disease /Marianne Szegedy- Masrak
• Depression and suicide /Joanne Kenen
• Understanding postpartum depression /Mark Levy and Stacy Sabraw
• Personal perspectives on depression
• Motherhood and depression /Kathryn Harrison
• The relief of medication /John Falk
• A story of teenage depression /David Marcus
• My experience with deep brain stimulation /David Beresford
• Treatments for depression
• An overview of alternative therapies / Aviva Patz
• Varieties of psychotherapy /Harvard Women’s Health Watch
• Omega-3s and depression / Patrick Perry
• Understanding transcranial magnetic stimulation /Dennis O’Brien
• The debate over antidepressants
• The history of antidepressants / David Healy
• Current antidepressants are flawed but needed /Apoorva Mandavilli
• Antidepressants’ link to adolescent suicide /Jennifer Barrett Ozols
• Controversy over medicating depression /Peter Kramer