Author of UNDOING DEPRESSION. Richard O’Connor is a practicing psychotherapist with offices in Canaan, Connecticut, and New York City. He is also the author of Happy at Last, Active Treatment of Depression, and Undoing Perpetual Stress. For fourteen years he was executive director of the Northwest Center for Family Service and Mental Health, overseeing the treatment of almost a thousand patients per year.
The author can speak to:
• How depression causes brain damage, and how the damage can be reversed
• The vast scope of the depression epidemic
• Why women are more susceptible to depression than men
• How depression affects the physical body and what can be done about it
• Why depressed people actually make the best employees