"Moving Beyond Depression"
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A Whole-Person Approach to Healing
Hope for those suffering with depression

Endorsements for "Moving Beyond Depression"

"Moving Beyond Depression" offers encouraging and practical help. With wisdom and sensitivity, Dr. Jantz challenges popular approaches to treating depression and provides real solutions for real healing.
-Dr. Tim Clinton, author of numerous books and president of the American Association of Christian Counselors

"Moving Beyond Depression" is an extraordinary book that not only touches the very core of this troubling disease but offers healing guidance and wisdom that is totally on target for anyone who suffers from depression. Dr. Jantz has once again taken his professional expertise and integrated it with spiritual wisdom to explain the whole-person approach to healing, health, and happiness.
-Cynthia French, author of Humanville

Dr. Jantz has written a book that looks at depression with wisdom and heart. "Moving Beyond Depression" will give those who struggle with depression and those who love them understanding and hope.
-Sharon Hersh, M.A., LPC, author of Bravehearts and Mom, I Feel Fat!

I found Dr. Jantz's book to be a useful tool for self-discovery and healing. Understanding the roles that emotional, environmental, relational, physical, and spiritual healing can play in the treatment of depression would have been most helpful in my own recovery from clinical depression. By treating the whole person rather than simply the disease of depression, Dr. Jantz gives people with depression the opportunity to reclaim their personal integrity and individuality.
-Laura Lawless, Miss Arizona 2002 and mental health advocate.

Dr. Jantz does it right. After citing that 20 percent of Americans battle depression, he doesn't take the fill-the-with-pills attitude. Instead, he teaches what he calls the whole-person approach and urges readers to seek the causes. His premise is that there is no single cause and no single path to recovery. I highly recommend this practical book.
-Cecil Murphy, author of numerous books, including The God Who Pursues and The Relentless God

In "Moving Beyond Depression", Dr. Gregory Jantz leads readers through, around, and beyond depression. This book will benefit untold numbers of those experiencing depression.
-Robert A. Anderson, M.D., author of Clinician's Guide to Holistic Medicine

Here is what one of the world's greatest psychiatrists has to say about "Moving Beyond Depression" and Dr. Jantz's treatment philosophy:

"Moving Beyond Depression" Forward By Abram Hoffer, Ph.D., M.D., FRCP(C), co-founder of Orthomolecular Psychiatry, president of the International Schizophrenia Foundation
I became a psychotherapist in July 1950 because there was no other kind of treatment available. Psychoactive drugs were just on the horizon and electroconvulsive therapy was reserved more or less for psychotic depressions and schizophrenia. Psychoanalysis was becoming much more popular because it promised something-it promised that patients might be helped if they were analyzed long enough. In 1952 I became an orthomolecular therapist. I began to treat schizophrenic patients with large doses of vitamin B-3 and with Vitamin C. Since then I consider myself a good psychiatrist because I no longer am either a psychotherapist or an orthomolecular therapist; I treat each patient as a unique person who is sick and needs help. This help includes four basic elements-shelter, food, civility, and therapy-with treatment ranging from psychotherapy to pure drug therapy. Every part of a person's life is important. Neglecting one prevents the best response possible even when other issues are addressed.

Books about depression followed the same trend I saw in the psychiatric world. They focused on either one or the other-a form of psychotherapy or a form of drug therapy. The psychotherapist behaved as though the brain was a complex of psychological difficulties that were not related to the body's biochemistry, and the pure organicists behaved as if the patients simply had to be filled with medication with no attention paid to all the other factors. Too many modern psychiatrists belong to this latter group. Their patients are fast in and fast out, with just enough time to ask how you are doing and to write a prescription. I demand of myself that every patient must be treated with dignity, with respect and understanding, and with proper attention to the diet and to orthomolecular therapy. That means using the right nutrients, vitamins and or minerals, and medication when needed (in as low doses as are effective and for as short a time as possible).

With this brief background you will understand why I like this book so much and why I endorse it for anyone who is depressed, for his or her family, and for doctors and other therapists. It contains an excellent description of the way Dr Jantz interacts with his patients. He is sensitive to their needs, provides structure in the treatment, and treats them with dignity, respect, and for as long as is necessary to achieve recovery. He knows that physical diseases can be at the root of depression and these must be identified and treated. He knows that food allergies and sensitivities can and very often will cause chronic depression. (I have seen a patient suffering from twenty years of depression recover in a few days when the food to which she was reacting was eliminated.) He knows that nutrients, vitamins and minerals, and essential fatty acids will be very important for many. And he understands that for many patients, correcting the most modifiable cause of depression is important and it may well be that biochemical pathology is that cause. If psychological problems are the most important cause then more attention will be given to them.

It is this combination of therapies that considers the entire person that makes this book so unique and valuable. Dr. Jantz calls his approach integrating the "whole person." If only this were accepted by all our medical schools and universities! I hope that every therapist, no matter their basic training, will employ the theory and methods described in this book. I heartily agree with Dr. Jantz's approach and believe this book will help many people recover from depression.

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Review of "Moving Beyond Depression" in the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine
by A. Hoffer MD PhD FRCP(C)

Depression as I knew it in 1950 was not the same as the depressions we see today. It was much more severe, carried a greater suicide risk and was narrower in range. Not as many people were caught in its diagnostic web. It was probably just as common but fewer people with depression thought it was a disease and sought medical or psychiatric help. The patients whose disease w a s so severe they had no option found that treatment was very primitive as the only treatment that was really effective was electro convulsive therapy (ECT) recently intro-duced into psychiatry and given to patients who had been admitted to hospital. We had no antidepressant drugs. The only treatment that had widespread acceptance was psychotherapy which was rarely very effective but at least provided support to these patients until by unknown natural recovery processes they came out of their depressions. Many controlled studies had difficulty proving that psychotherapy alone was of any great value and it did not matter which particular type of psychotherapy was used. I remember one of my patients, a rancher in Sas-katchewan, who was dreadfully depressed. I was then in my psychotherapy mode and in the hospital I saw him three hours each week . Nothing happened. I got tired seeing no response and I am sure he also dreaded it until one day I began to talk about playing bridge. He was a good player and that became the topic of our discussions. He began to improve and in one month I was able to discharge him well. I still think that he was going to get well anyway and that I made it less tedious for him by talking about something that meant something to him. All that stuff about his childhood was meaningless to him.

W e recognized two types of depression. Psychotic depression for which ECT was the treatment of choice and probably still is and neurotic depression for which psychotherapy was the treatment of choice. The vast number of people who now and then suffered moderate or severe depression was left undiagnosed and untreated and apparently they did just as well.

Psychoanalysis was considered an advanced form of psychotherapy and was widely used for dealing with depression. I was never convinced that it was helpful from what I had read and after hearing Dr. Karl Menninger, the great American psychoanalyst tell us at a seminar that in his opinion psychoanalyses was not a treatment but a research procedure. And even if it had worked it was only available in larger centers for the few who could afford the time and money.

The fact that ECT was effective for so many suggested that there was a physiological basis for depression. This was reinforced when the first serendipitous antidepressant was discovered. A drug used for treating tuberculosis also made many patients more cheerful. This led to the amine oxidase inhibitors which are still in use and later the tricyclics such as Elavil. These were follow-ed by the modern drugs such as prozac which in my opinion are not generally any better but provide a much wider variety of choice for the patients who no longer respond to the older medication.

Between 1950 and 1970 psychological theories and treatment were so well ingrained that companies advertising the new drugs insisted that they were there only to be used as adjuncts to psychotherapy. Looking back at that period I believe they were on the right track in making these claims. But the new drugs when they worked were rapidly effective. It took a few weeks rather than months of psychotherapy. Eventually the emphasis was almost entirely on the use of drugs and psychotherapy, which is helpful, fell by the wayside. Psychiatrists still pay lip service to the need for psychotherapy but their behavior does not support this.

The dichotomy physical and psychological was replaced by the trichotomy by introducing biochemistry as another important aspect of depression. Orthomolecular psychiatry showed that there is no single disease called depression. The mood depression, that terrible feeling of sadness, anxiety, futility and suicidal ideas is the end result of a number of biochemical ab-normalities, which had not been recognized. These include those depressions caused by food allergies, by vitamin deficiency by vitamin dependencies, by excess of some toxic mineral, by deficiency of zinc for example. What we now need is a different term-for each one-of these depressions. Eskimos have about a dozen terms to describe snow. Why should a person depressed for years because they are eating a food to which they are allergic be labeled the same way as a person how is depressed because they have lost a loved one or failed in business, or are depressed because they are dying of Cancer. We do not have these terms but we do know much more about these other factors that cause depression and which must be taken into account when treating these patients.

This book by Dr Jantz is really wholistic. He recognizes these factors, which cause depression, as well as the psychosocial factors. Of the ten chapters the first six deals with these psycho-social factors such as pressure of life, family dynamics, relationships and in the remainder of his good book he also deals with biochemical factors. He is practicing orthomolecular psychology using the right diet, the correct nutrients as supplements and putting them all together with an excellent psychotherapy. For the novice in this integrated wholistic approach he has a very useful resource list of books, many of which I have and approve.

I wrote a brief foreword for this book. This I would not have done had I not liked the book.

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