What Low Mood Can Teach Us About Treating Depression
Jonathan Rottenberg • 2/17/2016
Depression has been a tough nut to crack, but we haven’t focused much on what’s at the center of that nut: mood. Understanding the forces that are seeding low mood in the depression epidemic can help us better understand how to achieve better therapeutic outcomes.
Daily Blog
Psychotherapy Tackles Depression as a Low Mood Problem
Jonathan Rottenberg • 11/21/2014
How can it be that—despite all the efforts aimed at understanding, treating, and educating the public about depression—the number of people suffering from depression continues to rise? Why have our treatments plateaued in their effectiveness, and why does the stigma associated with this condition remain very much with us? Depression has clearly been a tough nut to crack, but we haven’t focused much on what’s at the center of that nut: mood.
Daily Blog
Can Mood Science Save Us?
Jonathan Rottenberg • 11/12/2014
It’s time to get beyond simplistic notions about “chemical imbalances” and finally reckon with how deeply rooted depression is in the uncertainties and false values of our 21st-century consumer culture.
Magazine Article