Richard O'Connor, MSW, Ph.D, has been a practicing psychotherapist for 25 years. His openness about his own depression has made him a featured speaker and contributed to the standing of his books.
He is the author of four books: Undoing Depression (1997) has become a classic inself-help, and Active Treatment of Depression (2001) has been reviewedas “one of the decade's great psychotherapy texts on depression.” Undoing Perpetual Stress (2005),reviews current knowledge about the impact of social and cultural change on thebrain, mind, and body, and describes concrete steps the individual can taketoward recovery. It received theBooks for a Better Life Award as the best wellness book of 2005. Happy at Last: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Joy(St. Martin’s, October 2008) first reviews why it is so difficult to findhappiness despite material wealth. Then it finds solutions for these problems in the latest scientificresearch and puts the solutions into engaging, practical, empathic, andsometimes witty words.