Depression, the way out of your prison - Hardcover

Rowe, Dorothy

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9780710096999: Depression, the way out of your prison

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ISBN 10: 0710096992 ISBN 13: 9780710096999

Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983

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Depression is the greatest isolation that we can experience. In depression we can neither give nor receive comfort, for we are alone in a prison, and that prison is filled with fear, anger guilt and despair. Dorothy Rowe show how we build such a prison for ourselves; why we can resist all attempts to get us to leave this prison; but if we decide to leave it, there is a route we can follow. Depression provides a radically new approach to the problem. Dorothy Rowe shows how we create our own depression and how, since we created it, we are also free to change it. She describes how hard it is for families to live with a depressed person but points to the important role they play in enabling a person to change. A family can, wittingly or unwittingly, prevent a person from finding a way out the prison.

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Depression is the experience of a terrible isolation, of being alone in a prison. But by understanding how we build the prison of depression we can dismantle it for ever. Dorothy Rowe gives us a way of understanding depression, allowing us to take charge of our lives. She shows it is not an illness requiring drugs but a defence we use to hold ourselves together when we feel our lives falling apart. This bestselling book, now in its second edition, contains the stories of people who have left the prison of depression and changed their lives for ever.

About the Author:

Australia born, Dorothy Rowe worked as a teacher and child psychologist in Sydney then moved to England to work as a clinical psychologist in the NHS and to begin her research into depression. After completing her PhD from Sheffield University she established and headed the Lincolnshire Department of Clinical Psychology for more than a decade. She then decided to devote her time fully to writing, researching and teaching. Her work is concerned with how we create meaning and how we communicate. Dorothy Rowe is consulted by and writes for the full range of national newspapers magazines. She is a consultant for many television programs and appears regularly in television and radio interview phone-ins.

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