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.
As well as discussing the meaning of depression, examining why it is hard to effect change, and describing the journey towards freedom from depression, the author also looks at other interpretations of depression, and at the way drugs are often wrongfully used. By the author of "Successful Self".
'I remember feeling very isolated. For a while I became convinced that I was set apart. Everyone seemed so well and confident. I marvelled that they were able to get through the day.'Joan had a happy family and a nice home, but saw no point in living further. Mary feared that no one would notice if she died. John desperately needed someone to talk to following the death of a close friend. Joe tried to murder the girl he loved. And Dave's aggression went either against himself or against the world.Depression is the greatest isolation we can experience, a prison which we build for ourselves. Just as we build it, however, so we can unlock the door and let ourselves out. In 'Choosing Not Losing', eminent psychologist Dorothy Rowe draws on her experiences with a number of patients who were referred to her for treatment. Their stories show that the lives of even those in the depths of depression 'can' change.A sympathetic and immensely valuable book, full of insight into the often strange and moving world of suffering inhabited by the depressive, 'Choosing Not Losing' will give hope to all who read it.
