Peter Kramer is currently the best writer on psychopharmacology and therapy out there. He also writes novels – the latest one out this year. I’d planned to revisit Against Depression for this blog and, halfway through my reading, as if to inform this review, I went into my own mini depression. My crisis reminded me how disabling even a mild brush with depression can be. So I upped my Prozac (I generally don’t take much these days) and started a fightback.

The DBT Homework Assignment Workbook: 50 Worksheets Based on Dialectical Behaviour Therapy

By Elyse Pipitone and Angela M Doel

What’s the aim of the book?

DBT is a practice as much as a theory, and so the idea here is that clients will use these worksheets between sessions to work on their DBT skills. A DBT therapist can also look at the completed worksheets to track the client’s progress.

Psychiatrist Kreisman wrote this book (now in its third edition), when he realised there were no good manuals around on BPD - ‘a disorder that was either mostly unknown or terribly misunderstood’. Kreisman’s book, first written in 1989, has ‘helped bring the disorder out of the shadows.’