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| The Instinct to Heal: Curing Depression, Anxiety and Stress Without Drugs and Without Talk Therapy | 
 enlarge | Author: David Servan-schreiber
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Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.9
ASIN: B000GYI1RO
Publication Date: February 5, 2005
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Product Description
Millions of Americans try drugs or talk therapy to relieve depression and anxiety, but recent scientific studies prove certain alternative treatments can work as well or better-often bringing on a cure.
In this extraordinary international bestseller, award-winning psychiatrist and neuroscientist David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., Ph.D., presents seven natural approaches, each with proven results, that together form a treatment plan that builds on the body's relationship to the brain, yielding faster, more dramatic, and permanent changes. People who want to leave suffering behind now can live joyful, happy lives.
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 Fascinating April 14, 2005
60 out of 63 found this review helpful
This paperback appears to contain exactly the same text as the hardbound version of the same book with a very different cover color scheme. (I thought the paperback version might be updated, but it appears not to be.)
The recommendations in this book really intrigued me, although some of them (e.g, EMDR) are likely to be controversial. I did some research on the author and he checks out. His credentials are real. I did some research also into his sources by checking with a physician who has a holistic bent. They check out too. He is drawing on known authorities in the areas of, for example, neurophysiology, and his research is drawn from peer-reviewed journals.
This book does not offer miracle cures but a series of remedies that seem likely to bring improvement in anyone's state of mind:
(1) "cardiac coherence," a sort of relaxation technique (oversimplified description)
(2) acupuncture
(3) EMDR
(4) exercise
(5) fish oil
(6) meditation and
(7) fostering social connections.
"Curing," however, used in the title, is a less skillful choice than the initial use of the word "heal." Anxiety, depression, and stress are chronic, or at least recurrent, states of the modern mind that are more to be acknowledged and managed than totally made to go away (not all stress, for example, is caused by bad things).
I was already using four of these remedies before I read the book. I learned cardiac coherence easily, I'm about to give acupuncture a try now, based on this book...but I'm still on the fence about EMDR.
 Waste of time and money March 26, 2006
16 out of 39 found this review helpful
I had great expectations for this book but it turned out to be yet another anecdote-filled, vague rambling account of medical musings.
Dr.Schreiber spends over 20 pages describing EMDR as a powerful healing procedure without ever explaining exactly how it is done, besides some superficial generalities. Then, in the "do it yourself" addendum he suggests one should look up a competent psychoterapist to do it. Hmm.
Overall the book follows the sadly-popular trend of presenting a lot of cases and little substance.
If you expect to actually find there a method to cure "Depression, Anxiety and Stress Without Drugs and Without Talk Therapy" then save your money and go look elsewhere.
it worked and helped a lot November 9, 2005
15 out of 19 found this review helpful
I had IBS and bad sleep for almost two years, and never figured out a way to deal with them, not even had a clue how to control them a bit. Until one day I figured that I might be a person with depression, anxiety (I never believe that I had them before) and stress (of course everyone got this), I bought this book and start to read it.
It's well written but it also sounds a fiction movie to me. But anyway I tried the breath method, the first method mentioned in the book. And it worked amazingly well and it simply cools me down and help me relax. I guess I am just kinda of person that get excited easily regardless of happy or bad things I am dealing with.
In a word, I guess this breathing is the instinct or natual way people should do couple of times everyday, but more and more people seems lost it somehow these days.
An Amazing Book September 19, 2005
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
Dr. Servan-Schreiber has broke new ground in summarizing practical therapeutics for the treatment of the emotional brain. As a health care provider who has had to heal my own brain after two significant head injuries and related traumas I can testify to several of the therapies he recommends, and am interested in trying some of the ones I had not heard as much about. As an acupuncturist the other thing I would add is that these protocols are not just for treating anxiety and depression, but they have relevance for every other chronic disease that is prominent today, the interplay between the emotional brain and all of the things we don't want to get is enormous.
Clear and informative, David does a good job explaining the brain. August 2, 2005
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
Mr. Servan-Schreiber provided information regarding alternative treatment for disorders that is not so easy to find out about especially since we are in the age of a "quick fix" with medication management. I would and have recommended this book to others. Cindy Jaime C.A.D.C.
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