In this booklet Dr Hartley analyses the Ten Stages of Deadly Depression and provides useful and practical advice to deal with each stage. This extensively researched information helps the reader identify what stage he or she is at the present time and then utilise the strategies that Dr Hartley provides to avoid moving on to the next stage.

(Description by Elvin Harris, Urban County Library)

Here are Dr Hartley’s Ten Stages of Deadly Depression

1. Disturbance — Need for readjustment and reconsideration

2. Disappointment — Need for reappointment and reconsecration

3. Discouragement — Need for reaffirmation and rediscovery

4. Disillusionment — Need for realignment and redetermination

5. Deflation — Need for re-inflation, recrudescence and rejuvenation

6. Despair — Need for reason, reconfirmation and renewal

7. Doomsaying — Need for reappraisal and redefinition

8. Desperation — Need for rescue and reconstruction

9. Derangement — Need for reclamation, recuperation, rehabilitation and reconditioning

10. Death — Need for resurrection (Divine intervention)

© 1972, Lionel Hartley | © 1986, Dayspring Health Services