Dorothy Rowe is a world-renowned psychologist and writer whose work has reshaped our understanding of depression and happiness. She offers a way for those experiencing depression to take charge of their lives and leave its prison forever. Rowe explains how each of us lives in a world of meaning we have created, applying this insight to crucial life aspects like emotional distress, happiness, aging, and relationships. Her work liberates us from misleading narratives that might be perpetuated by mental health experts and politicians seeking to maintain control.
Dorothy Rowe shows us how to live more comfortably and creatively within ourselves by achieving a fuller understanding of how we experience our existence and how we perceive the threat of its annihilation.
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.
A superb distillation of the wisdom of one of Britain's most admired writers on the human condition, which gives insights and comfort on some of the most difficult aspects of identity and self-esteem, fear, depression and unhappiness, coping with people, power, agreed, guilt and selfishness and getting older.
