Dr. Richard O'Connor
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April 2, 2022
Active Treatment of Depression

Depression, a chronic, recurring illness, affects twenty percent of the population. O'Connor, a therapist who suffers from depression, shows that depressed people have trouble digging themselves out of one episode or warding off the next because they have become adept at the "skills of depression," such as denying, procrastinating, and intellectualizing. Actively playing mentor, coach, […]

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April 2, 2022
Undoing Perpetual Stress: The Missing Connection Between Depression, Anxiety and 21st Century Illness

The author of Undoing Depression presents an effective guide to modern anxiety, and shows how you can recognize—and rescue yourself from—its effects. Twenty-first-century life evolves at a breakneck pace—and with it, stress seems to multiply by the day. We work long, harrowing hours. We fret over our families and finances. Our e-mail beeps and our cell phones […]

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April 2, 2022
Happy at Last: The Thinking Person's Guide to Finding Joy

From the bestselling author of Undoing Depression – a groundbreaking program to get happy and stay happy! Do you want to live the happiest, most satisfying life possible? Does happiness feel like an elusive goal? According to the most recent developments in psychology and science, the brain can be trained to be more receptive to happiness, because staying happy doesn’t […]

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April 2, 2022
Rewire: Change Your Brain to Break Bad Habits, Overcome Addictions, Conquer Self-Destructive Behavior

The bestselling author of Undoing Depression offers a brain-based guide to permanently ending bad habits Richard O’Connor’s bestselling book Undoing Depression has become a touchstone in the field, helping thousands of therapists and patients overcome depressive patterns. In Rewire, O’Connor expands those ideas, showing how we actually have two brains—a conscious deliberate self and an automatic self that makes most […]

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April 2, 2022
Undoing Depression

The bestselling approachable guide that has inspired thousands of readers to manage or overcome depression — fully revised and updated for life in the 21st century. Depression rates around the world have skyrocketed in the 20‑plus years since Richard O'Connor first published his classic book on living with and overcoming depression. Nearly 40 million American […]

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November 11, 2021
Controversies in Mental Health Treatment

Richard O’Connor, PhD will discuss the new completely revised and updated edition of Undoing Depression: What Therapy Doesn’t Teach You and Medication Can’t Give You in a Zoom Book Talk with the Hotchkiss Library of Sharon at 7 pm on Wednesday, November 17. Psychotherapist Richard O’Connor, PhD, author of the newly revised and updated Undoing […]

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February 27, 2019
About Dr. O'Connor and his books

"When I was 15, I came home to find that my mother had committed suicide. Until two years before, she had seemed happy, confident and outgoing. When I look back at the course of my own life, I realize now how much it has been shaped by my need to understand what happened to her. […]

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November 2, 2011
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November 1, 2011
About Depression and this Website

"I want this website to be a place where people can find the tools they need to help them live better. In my work I see far too many people who suffer needlessly because they either don't recognize their own problems or because they've come to believe that their loneliness or pain is normal. We've tried […]

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Undoing Depression

Dr. Richard O'Connor maintains an office in Sharon, Connecticut. Call 860-364-9300 or email rchrdoconnor@gmail.com to arrange an initial consultation.
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