 Hello, and welcome to MIP TV and with me as always the man who reviews books who lives in the library and Spends it spends it spends his time In in heavy heavy Tom's mr. Bob cooks. Hi Bob Yeah, I thought you're gonna say how he potter well, you know the other than the library don't they? Satir or whatever it was Yeah, so in this in this video we're gonna look at a really brand new book or brand new at the time the video And it's we've already we're already reviewed this office So if you are watching just do the search a hundred hundred tips hundred tips in TA by Mark Widdison But this is a this is a new book and it's called transactional analysis for depression. It was published in 2016 It's always nice to review new books because usually they they Push You know push the ideas and the research and our ideas of therapeutic interventions Further, is this the case in this book Bob? Yeah, and Dr. Mark Widdison who? again has been in TA probably for I know 15 16 years though, you know, he's perhaps 50 I don't know by now, but he's a very Lucid writer he wrote that very successful book a hundred techniques in transactionalist 2011, which we reviewed earlier This is our 33rd book. I think it's quite apt in many ways because it's right up to date is yeah 2016 and He does talk in this book if you're talking about up-to-date material on some of the ideas of neuroscience a little bit Some of the ideas on latest medication the depression, so you are writing that it brings it right up to date and he does Talk about concepts of transactionalist which are central since 1961, but also talks about how you can use the TA concepts in the relationship So it is up-to-date book and it's and what I like about this and why I'm glad this we've got it going This is specific. It's specifically aimed towards the clients of Depression so you know Rory and I've done this many times over the years because I think it often think Won't be the case But I put the word depression into Google and it comes up Huge count in other words of all the mental health terms you can put into Google number one search term In mental health is depression Yeah, yeah, and it's really interesting because it can mean different things to different people cancer You know, it's a it's a kind of It's a kind of very broad brush Depression for some people can be you know just feeling a bit fed up and for others it could be absolutely crippling and and you know disempowering and Paralyzing and everything in between so well You said he drew on neuroscience and a little bit about neuroscience and also a discussion on medication It's kind of it's kind of interesting isn't it because it's kind of took already the books seems to be touching on One very new discipline, which is that of neuroscience, but also acknowledging antidepressants, which you know, which is the end of the book the majority of the book is about though how to How to build up an adult to adult working relationship with a client in front of you when they come and also Really having at its essence that the cure for depression or the resolution for depression is in the child eager state and number two establishing a Or facilitating in the client the ability to Developing what I would call a compassionate parent eager state. Oh, interesting. So I'm thinking of the book now whether it talks about compassionate mindfulness, but if it doesn't it should do but in the book particularly talks about the establishment and the identification of Nurture and parent in a compassionate dialogue with the child because the idea is from Mark and from TA generally I think that we depress ourselves and are often following a Here we go again the word script again. No early decisions, which we've learned from childhood Which form the basis of our low mood And often Lee is the what we call in TA the internalized critical parent that is impinging or keeping down if you like the Vitality of the child. Yeah, it's really interesting, isn't it because we've just we've just reviewed another book Which is another video called born to win It kind of touches on that the fact that our script decisions those messages that we Interjecting in childhood and carry through the arc of our lives can be can be sometimes really Disabling and I remember in one of our many videos that we've done over the years You saying that depression is repression of feelings. Yeah Definitely that we I did I saw somebody today who came in the low mood and we identified depression and he was talking about a metaphor if you like of pressure cooker and that He kept his feelings repressed and it took so much energy to keep all these feelings down that The feeling that came with that was depression because the amount of energy keeping the feelings in the pressure cooker Took a lot of his effort. Yeah. And therefore It's it's a turning inwards process. It's a repression process and As we repress ourselves and we use all that energy. There's less energy for Vitality, joy, happiness zest for life or even just going to work Yeah, yeah, that's a really good example. Is it and also of course with pressure cookers You have a safety valve and when they go They go they go in a spectacular fashion. I can remember We have him one at home and it went with such an impact that we thought the roof was going to come off Yeah, so they can explode or you can Incapacitate yourself and knock out of bed. Yeah Yeah way either way and This is a great book in a specific plan like I said different stages work You know get to know the story you look for the early decisions that At the bottom of the crippling life plan, which brings a depression on then you look for the critical parent Which is a pinging down on the child and we're pressing the The energy of the child and then you help them So they take ownership of these crippling life scripts if you like you help them transform or change Their decisions into a more manageable ones in the here and now and part of that is Desensitising the child sorry the parent eager state so the adult Can take more charge and help The child in this battle against the parent Yes, turning the volume Turning the volume down that's of the critical parent that's traveled through the arc of time Yeah, yeah, it sounds a fascinating book It seems it seems to what you said that this is a book really that focuses on treatment planning Yeah And how to integrate how to integrate the new ways of being in life is another central part of this book and I think that's so important because it's not just about identity problems Not just about helping the person become aware and taking ownership of new destinies, but also helps Helps the person integrate new ideas and ways into life so they can take charge of our destiny instead of you know This sort of process of feeling so down in life not really knowing where it all comes from Yeah, because I suppose as people put the new script in process then they're experiencing maybe a Experience a phenomenological experience that they've not experienced before and that could be that could be quite scary I would imagine Very very scary. So they need the support of the therapist. They need to be able to Uh use their own resources from their adult in the here and now and realize they've got those resources in here now They don't have to live in the past Um, and in that process it's very important to do things like eat well Exercise all these ways that you're keeping yourself in the here and now Yeah, and it really does link in doesn't it's the modern ideas in mental health that it's an holistic approach It's not just going to therapy. It's about what you eat exercising Um, you know, you've touched on that there's some Part about medication and neuroscience You know, so it does seem quite a holistic book So would this be one for a more experienced practitioner maybe a student coming to the end of the studies? Um, it's an interesting one. Certainly, uh, for more second year at the mental issues They have to start doing, you know clinical placements. That means they go to they go Parts of agencies where they actually start to see clients voluntarily And as I said, I wouldn't like to put a statistics on how many of the clients of my practice Have come in with depression now They might they might go on to other things on or you might have other Multidiagnosis with it But they will find through their placements and the agency people that they see that Probably I high number will come with depression So from very early on in their clinical training from second year onwards They need to have some guideline on how to deal with people who come in with such Um Conditions and I say gent depression is such a common one So I would say it's it's reading from the second year onwards when they start their clinical journey when they start seeing clients I think it's a book to really Have at your bedside for that clinical journey because depression will come up Over and over again in that clinical process Yeah, so maybe if you watch this and you join in your second year Um, it may be it may be one to put on the the reading list It is an interesting book. It's called transactional analysis for depression. It's by mark widdison It's published in 2016 We'll put a link below click on that and that will take you to the book and right at the end of the video, which will be this way We're going to stick a A little picture at the end so you can see what the book looks like as always bob does this there's no um Fee he's not being sponsored by the book company Does it for his love of literature and share his knowledge? So as always, but bob, thank you very much Yeah, thank you very much boy