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Beyond Fear - Softcover

Rowe, Dorothy

 
9780006371014: Beyond Fear

Synopsis

Fear can often lead to physical illnesss like anorexia, or mental problems such as panic attacks, depression and schizophrenia. This book advises on breaking the pattern of keeping fear to ourselves. It shows how to recognize the need for change and bring it about.

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About the Author

Dorothy Rowe was born in Australia in 1930, and worked as a teacher and child psychologist before coming to England, where she obtained her PhD at Sheffield University. From 1972 until 1986 she was head of Clinical Psychology. She is now engaged in writing, lecturing and research, and is world-renowned for her work on how we communicate and why we suffer. Her books include ‘‘Wanting Everything’, ‘‘Beyond Fear’ and ‘‘Time On Our Side’.

From the Back Cover

Fear is the great unmentionable. We fear loss, bereavement, old age, death, rejection, failure. Most of all, we fear annihilation of the self. Yet all of this we keep to ourselves, afraid of being thought weak.

Denying our fear of self-destruction, around which our entire sense of self is built, can have profound effects upon ourselves and those around us in later life. It can lead to physical illness, like anorexia, or to mental problems, such as panic attacks, depression and schizophrenia.

It lies within our power to break this pattern, discovering greater happiness in our lives. In 'Beyond Fear', eminent psychologist Dorothy Rowe explains how to recognize the need for change and how to bring it about.

"This is a most extraordinary and valuable book and Dorothy Rowe is a most extraordinary and valuable person. Not only is she phenomenally wise, but she imparts her wisdom in a kind of prose poetry that moves, enlightens, reforms, beguiles and educates all at once.
FAY WELDON

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