It's Not Always Depression: Working the Change Triangle to Listen to the Body, Discover Core Emotions, and Connect to Your Authentic Self

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Its Not Always Depression is based on Diana Fosha’s, Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP). Then the title of this book just irate them because depression is a word that can't be thrown around like this. Within the first few chapters of this book, I was already looking at my emotions differently and beginning to understand why the brain triggers specific emotions during certain situations. I thought the techniques wouldn't work but tried them with an open mind and they did work, and I'll be repeating these as required.

This practical and clearly written self-help book written by a gifted therapist helps the reader learn the incredible importance of understanding and accepting your core emotions and the variety of ways we use defenses and other emotions (anxiety, guilt, and shame) to protect us (even though they cause us pain as well). To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. This book is particularly powerful as you offer a visual map, the change triangle, to organize the diagnosis and source of feelings and corresponding actions. The Change Triangle may prove an efficient therapeutic tool for both patients and psychotherapists to combat psychological problems by reconnecting the self to its core emotions and basic physical reactions.While I was about 40% into the book I started sending copies to other people so I would have folks to talk to about this type of therapy. Can I access compassion now, even though I may also be having other emotions like fear, sadness, or anger?

I think emotions can really dictate so much about how we exist and behave in a specific moment, blinding us to who we are when we are not swamped in that emotion. This book is a life changer - it helped me understand myself, my emotions and my traumas in a whole new way. The change triangle is interesting, but for someone who has gone through therapy before, reads psychology or has emotional self awarness, the book offers too little news.Based on what he told me, I decided to treat him as a survivor of childhood neglect — a form of trauma. I didn't know much about this concept having just picked up this book on the basis of the title alone. Rather, Jacobs Hendel found that they’d all experienced traumas in their youth that caused them to put up emotional defenses that masqueraded as symptoms of depression. Fascinating patient stories and dynamic exercises help you connect to healing emotions, ease anxiety and depression, and discover your authentic self.

This is the basis of 'accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy:' it accelerates healing through having an emotional experience in the here and now. Giving fishermen a business incentive to fish sustainably can “unleash their creative capacity” to help solve the problem, says one expert. Whether you’re a therapist, in therapy, simply curious, or all of the above, this book is sure to be refreshing, interesting, helpful and useful.To add to this, the author did mention something about trauma, but it's not the FULL ON/REAL DEAL trauma that some people expected when reading this book. Instead, this book just drilled the same message over and over and over again: find your place in the change triangle, understand how your emotions are working against and for you, become calm. As a psychiatrist and therapist for over 40 years I have always encouraged my patients to pay attention to how they are feeling and thinking. Tell him you are upset about something and want to talk about it, If you don't have a friend nearby, perhaps seek out a support group.

Without jargon or overly technical explanations, she presents the latest theories and discoveries in cognitive psychology, neuroscience and mindfulness meditation. How common it is for most of us to ruminate or push forward without understanding the source of one's feelings or actions.

It’s interesting that there appears to be a lot of literature recently which is focused on the use of psychotherapy of a similar psychoanalytical kind to that which Hendel discusses. It got me thinking that friends or partners could potentially work this system together and in fact Hilary suggests that herself in a few interviews I've seen with her.