Prologue

The dog and I

It takes one to know one

What is depression?

Black dog, white dog

Effects on a career

Overcoming the stigma and the shame

Substance abuse

Love's labour's lost : Susan Crosby

Suicide

Leslie Garis

Ya gotta have heart

Living with loss

Being woman, hard beset

Lifting the fog

Beauty and the beast

Existential blues

The black dog at home : Support of family and friends

It tolls for thee

Families in the dark

Children of depressed parents

Children with depression

Old dogs, new tricks

Advice to the players

Healing

Ad astra per aspera

Epilogue

Biographies

Afterword

Appendices

[Cover: Actors, journalists and politicians chronicle their most arduous journey through depression] Rona Barrett, Ann Buchwald, Dick Clark, Denton Cooley, Susan Crosby, Susan Dime-Meenan, Jane Doe, Kitty Dukakis, James Farmer, Jan Fawcett, Jules Feiffer, Betty Sue Flowers, Jennie Forehand, Linda N. Freeman, John Kenneth Galbraith, Leslie Garis, Frederick Goodwin, Stephen P. Hersh, Jim Jensen, Norman Jewison, Mary Jones, Lewis L. Judd, John Kelsoe, Pat Love, Barbara L. Parry, Judith Belushi Pisano, Joan Rivers, Norman E. Rosenthal, A. John Rush, Rod Steiger, Rose Styron, William Styron, Trey Sunderland, Mike Wallace, Harry A. Wilmer, Fred Wright.