'Compelling reading.'

This self help manual is for those for whom depression arises from the impact of exceptional circumstances such as childbirth and menopause, commercial and professional failure, accident, grief, divorce or debt as well as for those more permanent owners of the Black Dog.

'I have reviewed many books of relative merits but never have I reviewed one which I recommend everyone to read, that is until I read TAMING THE BLACK DOG...It talks about depression in everyday language...It never talks down to you...It deals with psychological and physical elements. It is a practical and comprehensive handbook for surviving depression...It is a really helpful book.'
Professor Stuart Kotze holds professorships in Behavioural Psychology at Oxford, Aston and Warwick Universities.

?This brave and honest book is a dispatch from the front line of depression. Patrick Ellverton deals with the relationship of depression and alcohol consumption head on. Two chapters which I specially recommend are firstly ?Your emotions? in which he tackles a notoriously difficult subject with startling lucidity. The second is ?Helping a Friend? which also deals with the relationship between the doctor and patient.?
Robert Beaumont of the Charlie Walker Memorial Trust which funds research by GPs into the treatment of depression.

Patrick Ellverton belives that he has fought a winning battle with the Black Dog and shares his formula for doing so in this book.

2008-03-05 Very disappointed

It is with much regret that the title of this review is as so, but i bought this book for a number of reasons, firstly as sufferer, i have Bi-polar II and Borderliner personality disorder, second was i was looking for a self help manual to help me get my life back on track, and this book seemed the perfect answer, but all in all i have found that the information contained within is very much like all the other self help books that are on the market and although some of his tips in theory seem very good they are not practical in todays world, i have been off work now for 3 years, and would very much like to get back into employment, that is the third reason for my purchase, some of the ideas/tips are very difficult to put into place in todays work place whether you are a business executive or a manual worker and i found some of the religious comments very off putting, but then that is my personal opionion and maybe the black dog has got more of a control over me than i realise, but those of you who are thinking about buying this book, it could be a ideal but for me unfortunately it was not. But i congratulate Patrick Ellverton for putting this book together as it will be an asset to many sufferers but not all.