The Way Up from Down - Softcover

Slagle, Priscilla

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312929145 ISBN 13: 9780312929145

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1994

Synopsis

Offers a safe and effective nutritional treatment for low moods and depression and provides a self-rating scale to identify depression through the observation of physical and psychological symptoms

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Maintaining that depression is biochemically induced, temporary and treatable, Los Angeles psychiatrist Slagle presents a nutritional treatment utilizing amino acids and vitamin-mineral supplements that are available sans prescription in pharmacies and health-food stores. The author, who has a history of "intense depression," readily admits that her alternative approach is controversial but, despite some awkward and repetitious prose, makes a solid case for food-mood connections. Readers are advised to self-test to discover if they are depressed by answering a number of questions, provided here. If they test as severely depressed, Slagle recommends that they seek a psychiatrist; others, she says, can embark on this self-help program alone. But the vagueness of the illness and the self-test questions, and the complicated nature of the treatment program, will deter readers, perhaps rightly so, from attempting this regimen without professional help. 25,000 first printing; major ad/promo; Prevention Book Club selection; author tour.
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About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0312929145
• ISBN 13: 9780312929145
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300