Are you struggling with some issues in your life that hinders you to experience true freedom? Are these issues causing you to experience depression instead of joy? Then God Can Help You Heal and Moving Beyond Depression are two great books to help you get beyond the past and to overcome depression.

God Can Help You Heal
Five short words: God Can Help You Heal. Yet, they contain the essence of the spiritual path to healing. For God is the ultimate author of healing and turning your healing over to God is a journey, especially when the pain is deep rooted or long-term. It would nice to think that the topic of this book resonates only with a few, but the truth is that pain, sorrow and suffering are universal realities in this world. The good news is that while the world may be the source of suffering, God is the source of healing. In John 16.33b, Jesus reminds us, “In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” As you read this book, I ask you to believe in the power of God to overcome your world.

God Can Help You Heal will talk about pain, sorrow and suffering but it is really about victory – the victory of God to help you find your way to healing.

This informative book shows readers how they can obtain emotional and physical healing through spiritual means.

• Such painful subjects as divorce, the death of a loved one, drug
  addiction, guilt, anger, and physical afflictions are addressed and handled with understanding and sensitivity.
  
  
• God wants us to heal from these wounds, so vital areas, such as
  prayer, forgiveness, renewal, and truth, are discussed at length.
  
  
• This treatment of healing is inspiring and easy to read; and it is
  filled with godly insights from Dr. Gregory Jantz, a nationally-known Christian psychologist.

Chapter Topics are: Truth, Trust, Acceptance, Forgivenes, Gratitude, Transformation, Spiritual Intimacy, Connections, and Vision.

Moving Beyond Depression: A Whole-Person Approach to Healing
by Gregory L. Jantz, Ph.D. with Ann McMurray.

This is a landmark book on Depression. The simple design is easy to read (even when you are depressed) and at the end of each chapter is easy to apply steps.

Helping the Whole Person Heal
In the past fifteen years the number of people suffering from depression in America has nearly doubled. Suicide rates continue to rise and more people are slipping into the darkness of despair. How do people start healing?

Gregory L. Jantz, Ph.D., suggests that readers get away from the quick-fix mentality of chemical solutions and start recognizing that the whole person, must be healed. Focusing on emotional, environmental, relational, physical, and spiritual causes of depression, Dr. Jantz provides a model for relief that takes into consideration the uniqueness of the suffering person and helps readers to tailor a solution specific to their needs.

Book Chapters
Introduction: Not Just a Case of the Blues
Chapter 1-Emotional Currents
Chapter 2-Emotional Equilibrium
Chapter 3-The Pressures of Life
Chapter 4-Living Life on Purpose
Chapter 5-Family Dynamics
Chapter 6-Rebuilding Relationships
Chapter 7-Physical Causes of Depression
Chapter 8-Replenishing the Body
Chapter 9-Renewing Your Spiritual Connections
Chapter 10-Integrating the Whole Person

Here is what one of the world's greatest psychiatrists has to say about "Moving Beyond Depression" and Dr. Jantz's treatment philosophy:

"Moving Beyond Depression" Forward By Abram Hoffer, Ph.D., M.D.,FRCP(C), co-founder of OrthomolecularPsychiatry, president of the InternationalSchizophrenia Foundation

I became a psychotherapist in July 1950because there was no other kind of treatmentavailable. Psychoactive drugs were just on thehorizon and electroconvulsive therapy wasreserved more or less for psychotic depressions and schizophrenia. Psychoanalysis was becoming much more popular because it promised something-it promised that patients might be helped if they were analyzed long enough. In1952 I became an orthomolecular therapist. I began to treat schizophrenic patients with large doses of vitamin B-3 and with Vitamin C. Since then I consider myself a good psychiatrist because I no longer am either a psychotherapistor an orthomolecular therapist; I treat each patient as a unique person who is sick and needs help. This help includes four basic elements-shelter, food, civility, and therapy-with treatment ranging from psychotherapy to pure drug therapy. Every part of a person's life is important. Neglecting one prevents the best response possible even when other issues are addressed.

Books about depression followed the same trend I saw in the psychiatric world. They focused on either one or the other-a form of psychotherapy or a form of drug therapy. The psychotherapist behaved as though the brain was a complex of psychological difficulties thatwere not related to the body's biochemistry, and the pure organicists behaved as if the patientssimply had to be filled with medication with no attention paid to all the other factors. Too many modern psychiatrists belong to this latter group. Their patients are fast in and fast out,with just enough time to ask how you are doing and to write a prescription. I demand of myself that every patient must be treated with dignity,with respect and understanding, and with proper attention to the diet and to orthomoleculartherapy. That means using the right nutrients,vitamins and or minerals, and medication when needed (in as low doses as are effective and foras short a time as possible).

With this brief background you will understand why I like this book so much and why I endorse it for anyone who is depressed, for his or her family, and for doctors and other therapists. It contains an excellent description of the way Dr Jantz interacts with his patients. He is sensitive to their needs, provides structure in the treatment, and treats them with dignity, respect, and for as long as is necessary to achieve recovery. He knows that physical diseases can be at the root of depression and these must be identified and treated. He knows that food allergies and sensitivities can and very often will cause chronic depression. (I have seen a patient suffering from twenty years of depression recover in a few days when the food to which she was reacting was eliminated.) He knows that nutrients, vitamins and minerals, and essential fatty acids will be very important for many. And he understands that for many patients,correcting the most modifiable cause of depression is important and it may well be that biochemical pathology is that cause. If psychological problems are the most important cause then more attention will be given to them.

It is this combination of therapies that considers the entire person that makes this book so unique and valuable. Dr. Jantz calls his approach integrating the "whole person." If only this were accepted by all our medical schools and universities! I hope that every therapist, no matter their basic training, will employ the theory and methods described in this book. I heartily agree with Dr. Jantz's approach and believe this book will help many people recover from depression.