This text gives us a way of understanding our depression which matches our experience and which enables us to take charge of our life and change it. It is for depressed people, their family and friends, and for all professionals and non-professionals who work with depressed people.

A superb distillation of the wisdom of one of Britain's most admired writers on the human condition, which gives insights and comfort on some of the most difficult aspects of life-including: identity and self-esteem, fear, depression and unhappiness, coping with people, power, agreed, guilt and selfishness and getting older.

Dorothy Rowe shows us how to have the courage to acknowledge and face our fears -- only through courage can we find a sustaining happiness.

The author's research and therapy is concerned with questions of how we create meaning and communicate with each other. She is also author of Depression: the Way Out of Your Prison , Living with the Bomb: Can We Live Without Enemies? and Beyond Fear .

As well as discussing the meaning of depression, examining why it is hard to effect change, and describing the journey towards freedom from depression, the author also looks at other interpretations of depression, and at the way drugs are often wrongfully used. By the author of Successful Self .

In the twenty-first century, religion has become a political power. It affects us all, whether we're religious or not. This title separates the political from the personal, the power-seeking from the compassionate.

Talks about what it is to be and to have a sibling. This work helps us to recognise the various experiences involved in sibling relationships as a result of the fundamental drive for survival and validation, enabling us to reach a deeper understanding of our siblings and ourselves.

This new edition is completely revised and updated it uses the authors real-life examples to argue that the traditional way of treating mental illness can often exacerbate people's problems.

A collection of over 30 non-fiction pieces by women of varying backgrounds, some professional writers and others published for the first time, about the death of their mothers. Will be of great use - and comfort - to women about to face a mother's death or who have already experienced it, no matter how long ago.

A parenting book, that is a synthesis of research from a wide range of world-renowned professionals, together with the experiences of real parents and children. It provides thought-provoking and helpful advice that has helped thousands of parents through the tough problems, contentious issues and crucial questions faced by everyone with children.

From the moment of conception we are in the business of surviving. We come into the world expecting to have everything and seeing no reason why we shouldn't have it. This book is about the frustration endemic in our experience of life and the strategies we evolve to cope with that frustration.

Looks at the uses and abuses of electroconvulsive therapy and drug therapy in the USA. The book details the success of talking therapy , and other psychosocial interventions in helping people diagnosed as schizophrenic, depressed, panic disordered, hyperactive, and learning disabled.

In this collection, parents, grandparents, children, siblings and partners share experiences of losing close relatives and friends through death from natural causes, genetic conditions, accident, suicide and murder. It aims to encourage people to understand their own grief and how those closest to them might be affected by the loss.

Making Us Crazy is a powerful and challenging book which forces us to question the labels which are now commonly imposed on us by the American bible of mental syndromes.'

Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison gives us a way of understanding our depression which matches our experience and which enables us to take charge of our life and change it.

'A very important book about one of the last social taboos -- with fascinating implications for us all' Helena Kennedy, QC

This new edition is completely revised and updated it uses the authors real-life examples to argue that the traditional way of treating mental illness can often exacerbate peoples problems.

A teaching anthology that surveys the history of European and American architecture and design using historical and contemporary sources. It covers three major periods, from 1750 to 1830, from 1830 to 1910, and from 1910 to 2000.

A teaching anthology that surveys the history of European and American architecture and design using historical and contemporary sources. It covers three major periods, from 1750 to 1830, from 1830 to 1910, and from 1910 to 2000.

One of our most admired and loved psychologists turns her attention to the essence of the good relationship, and why we need enemies as well as friends.