Transforming Depression: Healing the Soul Through Creativity

This book as an incredible insight and guide into egocide and personal growth. It's a book I am privileged to read. I highly recommend it for young and old. I shall treasure this book and keep it in my shelves for a long time for myself and others. I know very few people who haven't had at least one great personal loss or difficulty in their life. Even more disabling, when the event freezes one image of 'self and personal growth' in that trauma for many years to come, resulting in `arrested personal development'. Rosen's book helps put such personal losses and challenges into perspective and provides a resolution path through egocide and transformation where one loses old destructive personas or egos and achieve individuation towards a new, truer and healthier self.

This is a must read for all who have struggled with depression. Dr. Rosen helps us understand depression and different ways of healing. He examines the motivations to live and the transformations that must take place. The four studies given in part three are amazing journeys to read.

This book was absolutely wonderful to see. I got it and couldn't put it down. I have lived with depression for many years and been diagnosed for 3 years. I read this book and found it very helpful. I am a poet during my depressive and non-depressive stages (not a very good one, but a poet nonetheless), and I think it is a wonderful approach that seems not to be taken very seriously. The pictures included in the book speak to me as well. I also do many collages, and they seem to help. If you want a good book, I recommend this one.