Faces in the Morning as Treatment for Depression?

Has anyone come across the work of Seth Roberts, a Berkeley University psychologist who published a study according to which viewing faces in the morning may be an effective treatment for depression? Basically, he writes that he found through self-experimentation that when he watched a video of a talking face similar in size and distance to a real face in conversation (i.e., about 10 inches in height and approximately three feet away from the viewer) for a half hour each morning soon after awakening this worked to improve his depression. His theory is based on early humans presumably having had a lot of person-to-person contact in the morning but little in the evening, as opposed to people today who have the opposite. The human contact in the morning, or the contact simulated by way of viewing the faces, somehow interacts with the body clock to result in improved mood.

I know this sounds somewhat strange, but the research articles are real and there is more information at http://sethroberts.net/self-experiment/index.html. Roberts is also the author of a recent dieting best seller called "The Shangri-La Diet", so a lot on that page relates to the book and the diet but the parts that relate to his work on depression are mostly in the New York Times article under the "Journalism" heading and in his own self-experimentation research papers under the "Articles" heading.

The reason I am posting this is that I have had mild to moderate depression for a number of years (probably some form of dysthymia) and I recently tried his method and it worked. I am wondering if anyone else has heard or tried this and what you think of it.

Sounds interesting.

I am always open to trying new things to help with my mood and depression.

But I don't really understand the method. Is there a specific video for this? So, it's just looking at the faces without really interacting with them?