There are hundreds of books on the market that try to help readers 'overcome' or 'put a stop to' depression. But what if depression isn't a 'thing' to be gotten rid of? What if depression is a behaviour that, in the context of the life of someone who is depressed, serves an important function or acts as a signal that something needs to change? Learning to understand the function and interpret the signal of depression would, then, be a much more important goal than finding out how to simply make it go away. Living well even with feelings of depression would be a more productive-and probably more attainable-goal.This workbook marks a major development in the treatment of depression. Based on the acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), an emerging new model of psychotherapy, "The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Depression" offers a new approach to depression. The central idea is that feelings of depression are not problems in themselves. What is a serious problem is the avoidance of pleasurable, productive activities. At first depression may set the sufferer up for this avoidance, but sooner or later the process becomes a cycle, and the avoidance behaviours start causing more depressed feelings. When readers use the techniques in this book to evaluate their own experiences of depression, they will find out how to make changes that may or may not decrease their depressed feelings but will most certainly enrich and improve their total life experience.

科爾剋·斯特爾薩拉(Kirk D．Strosahl)，接受和實現療法的創始人之一，抑鬱管理和自殺行為的國際知名專傢。他作為心理學傢，為抑鬱患者的心理康復工作瞭26年。他著作齣版瞭多本書籍，現居住在華盛頓。

派翠西婭·羅賓遜(Patricia J．Robinson)，接受與實現療法的長期實踐者，齣版瞭用接受與實現療法(ACT)治療長期疼痛的一係列書籍。她指導接受與實現療法(ACT)和認知行為療法在初級護理場所的臨床使用長達26年。她著有兩本關於抑鬱治療的書籍。

前言作者史蒂文·海斯(Steven C．Hayes)是內華達大學的心理學基金會教授，他是當今行為主義和臨床心理學最有影響力的人物之一，他著有豐富的書籍和科研論文，包括享有盛譽的接受與實現療法工作手冊《走齣心理，走入生命》(Get Out of Your Mindandinto Your Life)。