The Zen Path Through Depression - Hardcover

Martin, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060654457 ISBN 13: 9780060654450

Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco, 1999

Synopsis

A beautifully simple and practical guide to how Buddhist wisdom can help heal depression – by a counsellor who uses Zen practices and ideas to overcome his own chronic depression.

Drawing on his own struggle, Philip Martin reveals another path people can travel to get through depression – one that not only eases the pain, but mends the spirit. Extremely accessible to people with little or no Zen experience as well as to longtime students of Buddhism,The Zen Path Through Depression shows how the insights and exercises of Zen offer relief for those suffering from depression.

This groundbreaking guide shows how to cope and heal, and even how to see the experience as an opportunity for spiritual growth and learning. Leading readers step-by-step through a recovery process that uses walking meditation and other meditative ways of enhancing awareness, koans, and other Zen teachings, Martin offers true help and spiritual guidance on the path to healing and contentment.

About this title

Review:

‘Philip Martin has written a wise, compassionate, and nurturing guide through the self-oppression of depression.’
Harold H. Bloomfield, M.D., author of How to Heal Depression and Healing Anxiety Naturally.

About the Author:

Philip Martin has worked as a psychiatric social worker and case manager for Washington County Community Services in Minnesota for many years. He has a degree in Buddhist psychology and leads workshops in Zen psychology.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0060654457
• ISBN 13: 9780060654450
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160