Dense, Informative & Caring
Customer Rating: 
Before beginning, I need to express my personal opinions regarding the use of medications to "treat" emotional issues. One would hope that drugs would only be used as a last resort, and not as the go-to strategy, especially with emotional issues. Mountains of research exist to support the use of all sorts of different therapy methods for emotional issues, mood disorders, and even the personality disorders etc.. It's very common to go with meds more quickly when dealing with the personality disorders, but certainly mood disorders, emotional problems etc., shouldn't need to go to the meds quite so quickly. Emotional issues can be dispatched with quite quickly and easily without the use of drugs. Personality disorders can be too, but I do understand that personality disorders do on occasion, require a bit more therapeutic effort than a typical mood disorders might.
I'm not necessarily suggesting that mood disorders are any less troubling to their sufferers, than personality disorders are, but simply that traditionally, mood disorders might be considered less complicated to figure out than a personality disorder can sometimes be.
My only other apprehension is that brain scans, although impressive to look at, are incredibly subjective and unreliable in my and many other opinions. This author does however seem to rely on them heavily. Having said that, he has much more knowledge and experience with brain scan than I do and presumably has strong reasons for his convictions and loyalty to them, which leads very nicely into why I DO like this book...
Dr. Amen has successfully demonstrated his high level of expertise and experience in these matters, but more telling for me possibly is his obvious passion and personal commitment to helping people suffering from mental and emotional afflictions.
My respect for him is through the roof. I consider him to be a man with the utmost professionalism and the possessor of unscrupulously high level of compassion for the human experience and those not enjoying it quite as well as they might otherwise be.
My most excited opinions of this book are in regard to its intentions to educate. This book is dense with really good information and science and offers the reader an exceptionally thorough accounting of the many and varied components of anxiety & depression.
Overall I was extremely satisfied, entertained and informed by this offering by the good doctor. It's a heartfelt journey of literary "caring" and commitment.
-Sarah Shikitao-Brown,
Tao Cycle Therapy: Natural Happiness via Self Directed Cure for Chronic Anxiety & Depression [Updated 2008 3nd Edition]
My books of the month
Customer Rating: My past months pick for best books are the two SKBF Publishing's best selling which was recommended by anther reader and I am glad I listened
1) Rumi & Self Psychology (Psychology of Tranquility)
2) Sara's Therapy: The Way to Purity (A session by session therapy for self growth)
And two other books
3) Seat of the Soul
4) Changing your anxious mind
Who am I? No one important, just read a lot of books about psychology and spirituality and science. I love telling people about the books I like.
