Defeating Depression: How to use the people in your life to open the door to recovery

Author: Dr Roslyn Law
Format: Paperback, 130mm x 196mm, 376g, 544 pages
Published: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2013

This ground-breaking new self-help book is based on Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), a therapeutic approach being adopted by the government’s nationwide Improved Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme, alongside Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. IPT is commonly used to treat those suffering from depression and eating disorders. IPT is now being used by IAPT therapists nationally and this book will be the first self-help book based on this approach and will be widely recommended to patients. The author, Dr Roslyn Law, is one of the UK’s leading authorities on IPT.

Dr Roslyn Law is a consultant clinical psychologist and one of the leading practitioners of Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) in the UK. She is Chair of IPTUK, the professional body for IPT therapists and National Lead for Interpersonal Psychotherapy in IAPT, a national government mental health campaign.She is director of the IPT training course at the Anna Freud Centre and holds an honorary senior lecturer post at UCL and has trained other clinicians in IPT in the UK and Ireland, Europe and in North America for many years.