Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison - Softcover

Rowe, Dorothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415034566 ISBN 13: 9780415034562

Publisher: Routledge, 1983

Synopsis

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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Review

"Dorothy Rowe is a seer with qualities which place her somewhere between sainthood and genius."
-Fay Weldon

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415034566
• ISBN 13: 9780415034562
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256