Dorothy Rowe
The psychologist who has changed how we understand depression and happiness
"Dorothy Rowes is the calm voice of reason in an increasingly mad world"
Sue Townsend
Dorothy Rowe is a world-renowned psychologist and writer. Her explanation of depression gives the depressed person a way of taking charge of their life and leaving the prison of depression forever.
She shows how we each live in a world of meaning that we have created. She applies this understanding to important aspects of our lives, such as emotional distress, happiness, growing old, religious belief, politics, money, friends and enemies, extraverts and introverts, parents, children and siblings.
Her work liberates us from the bamboozling lies that mental health experts and politicians tell in order to keep us in our place and themselves in power.
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“After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.”
“ 'Not spoiling' a child means trying to break that child's spirit. ”
“However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.”
“When a depressed person shrinks away from your touch it does not mean he is rejecting you. Rather he is protecting you from the foul, destructive evil which he believes is the essence of his being and which he believes can injure you.”
“...for if we try to go on protecting them we prevent them from growing up to be ordinary, confident adults, capable of looking after themselves.”
“The problem with growing up fearing and expecting rejection is that you cannot enter into adult relationship in the expectation of happiness.”
“...we can love someone without understanding that person.”