Lifting the Weight: Understanding Depression in Men, Its Causes and Solutions

by Martin Kantor

Book Overview

Depression in men often goes undiagnosed or improperly treated because of unique qualities that make it different from depression in women. In this volume, Dr. Kantor explains that depression in men is not strictly the product of major life events; it also regularly appears in response to minor troubling issues that often go entirely overlooked by others or, if recognized at all, are downplayed. In this jargon-free text, Kantor explains how many...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275993728
• ISBN13: 9780275993726
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

The best book on depression i have ever read.

Dr. Kantor has added immeasurably to the literature on depression with his latest book. This is the only book I know of that focuses not only on the big but also on the little things that mean a lot and represent some of the real issues why men get depressed. My friends who went for help for depression wound up getting two words out to their psychiatrists then getting medicated; or seeing someone who dealt with early experiences but not the here and now, or only handled the major losses and rejections but not those little things that stick in the craw and are really the route to big,deep, depressive disorder. This is the arena where Kantor fight depression, and what he has written should be read by all men (and women) who suffer from an affective disorder and want to know what is really causing it microscopically and how to enter that microscopic world of the depressed man they love and then take action to reduce its ravages.