Depression - The way out of your prison - Dorothy Rowe

Dorothy Rowe draws on her many years experience as a psychologist to write this book designed to help people sufering from depression, and their friends and relatives, gain an insight into what is happening to them. For some the book has been a revelation. It takes a non-medical model of the illness and says depression is a construct we create to protect ourselves from the pain of the world. Because we have constructed it, she argues, we also have the power to remove it. Her arguments are persuasive and there is a lot of feel-good talk going on here. It must be remembered, however, that this ... more

There are enough books out there for people whose depression can be attributed to abuse, food allergy, illness, hormones, grief and the like. But if you are a sufferer of "bog-standard-good-old-boring-no-apparen​t-reason-for-it" depression and are not looking to blame parents, society or the government, nor spend your life on pills, there isn't much out there. This book on the other hand can be life changing for people who have suffered long-term depression and tried every pill, herbal remedy and counsellor on the planet to no avail. It gives control back to the sufferer and shows them how to ... more