BREAKING THE BONDS

Depression is the central subject here, approached from several directions. Dorothy Rowe looks at what depression actually means, then asks why people find it so hard to change their circumstances. Rather than stopping at explanation, she maps out the route a reader might take toward living free of depression. The book also considers competing ways of understanding the condition and examines how medication is frequently misapplied. Rowe, a British psychologist, is also the author of 'Successful Self'.