Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison - Softcover

Rowe, Dorothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 158391286X ISBN 13: 9781583912867

Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

This text gives us a way of understanding our depression which matches our experience and which enables us to take charge of our life and change it. Dorothy Rowe shows us that depression is not an illness or a mental disorder but a defence against pain and fear, which we can use whenever we suffer a disaster and discover that our life is not what we thought it was. Depression is an unwanted consequence of how we see ourselves and the world. By understanding how we have interpreted events in our life, we can choose to change our interpretations and thus create for ourselves a happier, more fulfilling life. This book is for depressed people, their family and friends, and for all professionals and non-professionals who work with depressed people.

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Review

...by far the greatest book that's ever been written on depression... -- Tim Lott

...should be required reading for everyone: there are few of us untouched by depression. -- Nigella Lawson, The Times

You can't go to a party without meeting at least two people whose lives have been changed by Dorothy Rowe. -- Linda Grant, The Guardian

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 158391286X
• ISBN 13: 9781583912867
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 344