- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; (Reissue) edition (3 Jun 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006371019
- ISBN-13: 978-0006371014
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 13 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 578,606 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘This is a most extraordinary and valuable book and Dorothy Rowe is a most extraordinary and valuable person. Not only is she phenomenally wise, but she imparts her wisdom in a kind of prose poetry that moves, enlightens, reforms, beguiles and educates all at once.’ Fay Weldon
'Dorothy Rowe's is the calm voice of reason in an increasingly mad world. Buy this book.' Sue Townsend
'Dorothy Rowe has a unique ability to tackle our most fundamental emotions and issues with her innate wisdom, common sense and quiet compassion. In a market saturated with pop psychology paperbacks with their quick-fix jargon, she reminds us that we are both the creators and thus also the destroyers of our deepest fears and looks beyond dependency to encourage us to find our own solutions.' Meera Syal
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.Product Description
Dorothy Rowe shows us how to have the courage to acknowledge and face our fears – only through courage can we find a sustaining happiness.
‘Beyond Fear’, first published in 1987, has changed the lives of thousands of people. In this edition, the renowned psychologist Dorothy Rowe examines the changes in the psychiatric system since 1987 in the context of showing how most of our suffering comes from our greatest fear, that of being annihilated as a person, when we shall disappear like a puff of smoke in the wind, never to have existed.
We feel this fear whenever others humiliate or belittle us, or whenever we discover a serious discrepancy between what we thought our life was and what it actually is. The greater our fear, the more desperate our defence against it, the most desperate of defences being what psychiatrists call mental disorders. Yet, by knowing ourselves we can go beyond our fear and face life with courage.
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Having devoured this book from cover to cover in some kind of rapid unfurling of clarity and understanding, and proceeding to wax lyrical to all my friends and family, I am immediately a total Dorothy Rowe fan.
I can hardly believe that 9 years after being diagnosed manic depressive after a most spectacular manic flame-out at the late age of 41, and being an avid reader to boot, that it has has taken me this long to uncover someone who at last talks good sense about why depression happens.
I understand that when this book was originally written Dorothy was seen as controversial. I suspect that her anti medication views have softened somewhat in the latest edition given that some psychiatrists (if my experience is anything to go by) are less inclined to say that medication is the only treatment, and have just quietly agreed amongst themselves that the whole chemical imbalance thing is pretty much not provable, and probably not terribly relevant even if it was.
To my mind she is quite the sanest sounding person I have ever read. Her observations are illuminating and her advice wise. Her UK nomination amongst the wisest people in the world is thoroughly deserved.
I can hardly believe that 9 years after being diagnosed manic depressive after a most spectacular manic flame-out at the late age of 41, and being an avid reader to boot, that it has has taken me this long to uncover someone who at last talks good sense about why depression happens.
I understand that when this book was originally written Dorothy was seen as controversial. I suspect that her anti medication views have softened somewhat in the latest edition given that some psychiatrists (if my experience is anything to go by) are less inclined to say that medication is the only treatment, and have just quietly agreed amongst themselves that the whole chemical imbalance thing is pretty much not provable, and probably not terribly relevant even if it was.
To my mind she is quite the sanest sounding person I have ever read. Her observations are illuminating and her advice wise. Her UK nomination amongst the wisest people in the world is thoroughly deserved.
29 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is the most comprehensive, valuable, wise, insightful and truly intelligent book that I have ever read. True story and I have read hundreds! It is the book of books!!
Dorothy Rowe scoops the pools in the 'wise' stakes and takes us back to truly remembering how to connect with who we are.
Beware that we are all too used to 'how to in 10 easy steps' and we have, for the most part, totally forgotten to sit with ourselves and understand and be kind to ourselves through annihilating fear and pain. We find our own steps once we understand our fear.
How many people must be grateful that Dorothy Rowe decided to be so brave on paper? She literally cuts through the mystifying world of psychiatry and takes on the 'so-called' scientific literature with a glorious uncompromising clarity and common sense that rewards the reader with more information on the therapy culture than any other book written. She is the goods, the gold, the real mccoy.
A true elder!!
This book made me proud I could feel all of life, and gave me the courage (as well as me) to face what life could bring. Agony, ecstacy and oh my god, a love of little old me!
For anyone having a hard time right now, or diagnosed with a mental disorder, or perhaps several, don't give up, start reading this book - and take the bits that suit you and that help make sense of your world.
Power to you!!!!
Dorothy Rowe scoops the pools in the 'wise' stakes and takes us back to truly remembering how to connect with who we are.
Beware that we are all too used to 'how to in 10 easy steps' and we have, for the most part, totally forgotten to sit with ourselves and understand and be kind to ourselves through annihilating fear and pain. We find our own steps once we understand our fear.
How many people must be grateful that Dorothy Rowe decided to be so brave on paper? She literally cuts through the mystifying world of psychiatry and takes on the 'so-called' scientific literature with a glorious uncompromising clarity and common sense that rewards the reader with more information on the therapy culture than any other book written. She is the goods, the gold, the real mccoy.
A true elder!!
This book made me proud I could feel all of life, and gave me the courage (as well as me) to face what life could bring. Agony, ecstacy and oh my god, a love of little old me!
For anyone having a hard time right now, or diagnosed with a mental disorder, or perhaps several, don't give up, start reading this book - and take the bits that suit you and that help make sense of your world.
Power to you!!!!
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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If you've been told that depression or associated mental disorders are something you "just have to live with" - think again. This book brings hope that there IS a way through and out of it all. I cannot receommend it highly enough. There is only one reservation - it's not a quick fix, you have to be prepared to examine some places in your past that maybe you would wish to forget, and you have to want to change. Dorothy Rowe doesn't promise an esy ride, but what she says makes so much sense and rings so true that you cannot help but be encouraged to believe there is hope. Don't let anyone tell there isn't. Depression is all in the mind? Well, in a sense, yes - but the good news is that you can use your mind to do something about it, and you're not dependant on our desperately lacking health service to put you straight! I read this book with a senes of overwhelming relief.
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I'd been suffering from depression, severe anxiety attacks, amongst other things on and off for 14 years when I first picked up one of Dorothy's books after a referral from a... Read more
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A superb book from a superb human being - Dorothy Rowe is ranked among the 100 living geniuses in the world for the way she turned conventional thinking on its head. Read more
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A unique & cathartic read, for seekers of ageless wisdom.
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