Undercurrents: A Therapist’s Reckoning with Her Own Depression

In this book the author, a therapist, chronicles her descent into severe, debilitating depression. Finding no relief from an exhaustive array of antidepressant medications and therapy, as a last resort she agrees to undergo the controversial electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), which ultimately leads to her recovery (author). AVAILABLE FROM: Harper Collins Publishers, 10 East 53rd St., New York, NY 10022, (212) 207-7000. (COST: $20.00) (ISBN 0-06-251183-1)