Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression »

James S. Gordon, MD, is the founder and director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, D.C. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Gordon is a clinical professor in the departments of psychiatry and family medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine and the former chairman of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy. Dr. Gordon, who has been a frequent contributor to The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Atlantic, as well as to leading professional journals, is the author of Manifesto for a New Medicine and the author or editor of ten other books.

Despite the billions spent on prescription anti-depressant drugs and psychotherapy, people everywhere continue to grapple with depression. James Gordon, one of the nation’s most respected psychiatrists, now offers a practical and effective way to get unstuck. Drawing on forty years of pioneering work, Unstuck is Gordon’s seven-stage program for relief through food and nutritional supplements; Chinese medicine; movement, exercise, and dance; psychotherapy, meditation, and guided imagery; and spiritual practice. The result is a remarkable guide that puts the power to change in the hands of those ready to say “no” to suffering and drugs and “yes” to hope and happiness.

Christiane Northrup

Unstuck is the most exciting book on transforming depression I've ever read. Before you reach for a drug, read this book to feel better. This book is EXACTLY what this over-medicated country needs right now. Unstuck is fabulous. Thank you Jim Gordon for writing it. (Christiane Northrup, MD, author of Mother-Daughter Wisdom, The Wisdom of Menopause, and Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom)

Preface     xi
Introduction: Is There Some Other Way?     1
The Call: Finding the Right Way     47
Guides on the Journey     108
Surrender to Change     149
Dealing with Demons     185
The Dark Night of the Soul     240
Spirituality: The Blessing     282
The Return     321
Acknowledgments     345
Resources     347
Notes     383
Bibliography     409
Index     419