Out of the Nightmare: Recovery from Depression and Suicidal Pain

Out of the Nightmare. An all-out assault on the barriers that stand between you and recovery from depression and suicidal pain. decomposes recovery from depression into recovery from envy, shame, self-pity, grandiosity, fear, stigma, social abuse, and the double binds and vicious circles of the mythology of suicide. a drug-free approach to getting better and staying better. This book provides counselors with a bold new non-technical framework that is free from the prejudices that deter the suicidal from seeking help. It provides those who have lost a loved one to suicide with a broad array of new conceptual tools to understand the tragedy and to find help for stuck positions of bereavement. Most importantly, it provides all those who suffer from depression with hundreds of resources to find their way out of the nightmare.

David L. Conroy is a graduate of the Woodstock Country School, Claremont Men?s College, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The title of his dissertation was Plato?s Early Theory of Knowledge. He is the Executive Director of a New York City non-profit organization that does public education work in the prevention of suicide.