Yes, I think the book would be helpful to anyone. The title may actually be The Feeling Good Handbook--can't quite remember! It's been in print for something like 15 years at least, and has probably been revised several times.
I was a HORRIBLE wife in the early years of my marriage, before I figured out that the depression I had lived with for years, which had seemed normal to me, was destroying everything I loved--making me completely impossible to satisfy, suspicious, self-centered, obsessive, and angry for no apparent reason. Hey, and the list goes on. Just LOVE to wallow in my badness.
The Feeling Good Handbook didn't turn my life around, but I remember being very, very impressed by it. The author talks knowledgeably about depression, because he's been there.
Another interesting book--very short--is William Styron's memoir about his own very disabling bout with depression: Darkness Visible. The book is so short and powerful that people used to sit on the bookstore floor and read it in one go.
I guess that the trick is, how do you present your W with these books? Can't just leave them under her pillow with one perfect red rose. But, luckily, it sounds like this subject is one that you two can talk about. You may want to do some reading yourself. I think that depression is harder for a non-depressed person to understand than something obvious and physical.
