Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Preview
  • Mending the Mind

  • The Art and Science of Overcoming Clinical Depression
  • By: Oliver Kamm
  • Narrated by: Oliver Kamm, Roger May
  • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (10 ratings)

£0.00 for first 30 days

Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Mending the Mind

By: Oliver Kamm
Narrated by: Oliver Kamm, Roger May
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Summary

Sadness is an inevitable part of life, but for most of us it coexists with happiness. Clinical depression, however, unhinges us from everything we know about the world and makes us strangers to those we love. It is the predominant mental-health problem worldwide, affecting more than 250 million people. Yet how much do we really know about the condition and how to treat it? Drawing on his own experience of a disorder that has afflicted humanity throughout history, Oliver Kamm charts the progress of science in understanding depression and explores insights from writers and artists through the ages. Hopeful, revelatory and deeply versed in current research, Mending the Mind sets out in plain language how clinical depression can be countered - and may eventually be overcome.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2021 Oliver Kamm (P)2021 Orion Publishing Group
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

Listeners also enjoyed...

Psycho-logical cover art
Madness cover art
Wiser cover art
Emotionally Healthy Spirituality & Emotional Agility Workbook to Manage Self Esteem cover art
Emotional Healthy Spirituality & Emotional Agility Guidebook Bundle 2 in 1 cover art
In My Room cover art
Snowflake cover art
Frontal Fatigue cover art
The Fear Paradox cover art
The Illness Narratives cover art
Catholic Guide to Depression cover art
The Way of the Psychonaut Vol. 1 and 2 cover art
The Depths cover art
Mental cover art
A Whole New Plan for Living cover art
The Will to Meaning cover art

Critic reviews

"A tour de force...an important, affecting and effective book." (Alastair Campbell)

"[A] gorgeous and urgent book." (Steven Pinker)

"MENDING THE MIND reminds us that, despite our hazy understanding of depression, and despite the true horror of the illness, some hope for recovery remains." (The Times)

What listeners say about Mending the Mind

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    7
  • 4 Stars
    1
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    5
  • 4 Stars
    2
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    5
  • 4 Stars
    2
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    2
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Really enjoyable and insightful.

glad I heard about it on Portillo radio show. ps audio error at very end of chapter 9

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    2 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    2 out of 5 stars

Could have been an essay

This is ok but the story basically comprises: he got depressed, tried talking therapy which didn’t work, tried cbt which did. Not exactly mindblowing stuff if you’ve read anything about depression in the past.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!