Dorothy Rowe (1) (1930–2019)

Brilliant book, but from the comments and reviews, not for everyone it seems.

If you don't feel the need for deeper understanding, then this book will be no god for you.

The first third of the book is the most difficult part, where she talks about he 'assumptions' people make. About those believes that define us and we have acquired while we were very young. Rowe's book help us identify those assumptions, where they come from. She challenges our thoughts and believes in the hope we will stop show more blaming other people and ourselves. Rowe takes the role of a true critique, like the one friend that never spares us the truth, and all in the hope to help us. Maybe some people will not like the book, some will find it untrue, but she comes true as a person that desperately wants to give her knowledge to the world. A person that really wants to help us, and she does deserve credit for her life long commitment to helping depressed people.


A note: I think people with higher resilience don't have as much of those 'believes', she talks in the beginning of the book. I guess from all the negative comments they find Rowe's book useless and untrue.After all everybody has his/hers own cure. show less

Dorothy Rowe shows us how to have the courage to acknowledge and face our fears - only through courage can we find a sustaining happiness. Fear is the great unmentionable. We fear loss, bereavement, old age, death, rejection, failure - most of all we fear annihilation of the self. Yet all of this we keep to ourselves, afraid of being thought weak. Denying our fear of self-destruction, around which our entire sense of self is built, can have profound effects upon ourselves and those around us show more in later life. It can lead to physical illness, like anorexia, or to mental problems, such as panic attacks, depression and schizophrenia. In "Beyond Fear" psychologist Dorothy Rowe explains how to recognize the need for change and how to bring it about. show less

I read this a couple of weeks back after the Guardian feature on her. I liked her ideas but ended up thinking I would not want to be stuck on a train with the writer. You get her point. Then she makes it again. And again. And in sentences which nearly always contain two ideas. All her books are twice as long as the need to be.

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