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Women Conquering Depression is based on research Ive conducted over the last twenty years with several students and colleagues, including Sonja Lyubomirsky, Judith Larson, Joan Girgus, Cheryl Rusting, Andrew Ward, Zaje Harrell, Benita Jackson, Barbara Fredrickson, Tomi-Ann Roberts, Robert Zucker, and Eric Stice. I thank them, and the thousands of women and men who have participated in our research, for their contributions. I also thank the National Institutes of Health and the William T. Grant Foundation for funding much of this research.

My sincere thanks go to Jennifer Barth of Henry Holt and Todd Shuster, my literary agent, for encouraging me to develop a book on the toxic triangle, and my deep appreciation to VanessaMobley at Henry Holt for her skillful editorial guidance as I wrote this book.

As always, thank you to my family and friends for their abiding support of me and my work.

SUSAN NOLEN-HOEKSEMA, PH.D., is a professor of psychology at Yale University. She has taught at Stanford University and the University of Michigan. She received her B.A. from Yale and her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. The author of Women Who Think Too Much, she has been conducting award-winning research on womens mental health for twenty years with funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the William T. Grant Foundation. She was awarded the Leadership Award from the Committee on Women and the Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association. She lives near New Haven, Connecticut, with her husband, Richard, and her son, Michael.

There are many good sources of information available on mental health, eating disorders, and alcohol consumption. I offer a combination of straightforward self-help resources and more personal stories. A few that I recommend:

EATING

Overcoming Binge Eating by Christopher Fairburn

This is a step-by-step self-help guide to dealing with binge eating by one of the leading researchers in the field. Fairburns prescriptions are based on sound research on what helps people overcome binge eating.

Binge No More: Your Guide to Overcoming Disordered Eating by Joyce Nash This practical handbook is divided into five sections. Topics include defining binge eating, its potential harm, and its biological and societal causes; how to assess and alter binge patterns; how to change the thoughts that fuel those patterns; the role of medication; and advice on when to consider therapy or other professional help.

Overcoming Overeating by Jane R. Hirschmann and Carol H. Munter

An excellent, straightforward guide to overcoming the diet/binge cycle.

Its Not about Food: Change Your Mind; Change Your Life; End Your Obsession with Food and Weight by Carol Emery Normandi

Starting with the assumption that weight problems are as much emotional as physical, this book teaches techniques for becoming attuned to the body, setting personal limits, and understanding what is emotionaland not physicalhunger.

The National Eating Disorders Association ( www.nationaleatingdisorders.org ) The organization can provide you with information on binge eating and other eating disorders, as well as referrals, support groups and hotlines, conferences and newsletters.

Mirror-Mirror ( www.mirror-mirror.org )

This is a useful resource for individuals and loved ones on the way to recoveryproviding a useful list of symptoms and relapse warning signs.

Memoirs and a Novel

Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia by Marya Hornbacher

A haunting memoir from a young woman who suffered severe anorexia and bulimia.

Hunger Point by Jillian Medoff

This novel tells the story of two sisters battling eating disorders with humor and insight.

Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self by Lori Gottlieb

After finding the diary she kept when she was eleven years old, Gottlieb wrote this moving chronicle of her childhood struggle with anorexia.

DRINKING

Responsible Drinking: A Moderation Management Approach for Problem Drinkers by Fredrick Rotgers, Mark F. Kern, and Rudy Hoetzel

The tips in this book are based on a model of intervention for alcohol problems that has significant support. The book includes many case studies and exercises to help readers identify their triggers for drinking and develop alternative lifestyles.

Controlling Your Drinking: Tools to Make Moderation Work for You by William R. Miller

Clear, concise, non-judgmental, and practical, this book lays out techniques for moderation and self-discovery.

Moderation Management ( www.moderation.org )

This is a behavioral change program and national support network providing a mutual help environment that encourages people who are concerned about their drinking to take action to cut back or quit drinking before the problems become severe.

Addiction Alternatives ( www.addictionalternatives.com )

Espousing a philosophy of self-empowerment, based on therapist Marc Kerns research, this site provides further reading, free consultation, and information on support groups and resources around the country.

Alcoholics Anonymous ( www.alcoholics-anonymous.org )

This well-known organization provides support and meetings around the world.

Memoirs

Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp

A wrenching account of Knapps struggles with alcoholism, eating disorders, and depression. Her symptoms are much more severe than many readers, but the co-occurrence of alcohol problems, eating disorders, and depression in this writer shows how the toxic triangle develops and perpetuates itself in women.

Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zalickas

Zalickas is an insightful and graceful writer whose memoir addresses the danger of alcohol dependence in girls and young women.

Happy Hours: Alcohol in a Womans Life by Devin Jersild

A readable, personal treatment of womens relationship to alcohol, this book is filled with stories from women and sound advice about womens particular vulnerabilitiesboth social and physicalto alcohol.

DEPRESSION

Silencing the Self by Dana Crowley Jack

This breakthrough book describes how womens excessive concern with pleasing others and maintaining relationships leads them to sacrifice their own needs for the sake of their relationships.

Women and Depression by M. Sara Rosenthal

A straightforward guide by a medical health journalist, this book explains some of the theories of depression and describes the available treatments.

The Deepest Blue: How Women Face and Overcome Depression by Lauren Dockett This work is a collection of stories about thirty women of all ages and backgrounds who are experiencing, or have recovered from, depression.

American Psychological Association ( www.psych.org ) and the Association for the Advancement of Behavioral Therapy ( www.aabt.org )

These are both great resources if you feel you need to consult a psychiatrist or a psychologist but you dont know how to find one. Both of these Web sites also have information about depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues.

Memoirs

Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness by David A. Karp

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