DOROTHY ROWE
Beyond Fear
20th Anniversary Edition
HARPER PERENNIAL London, New York, Toronto and Sydney
To my dear friends Helen, Galen, Marc and Naomi
Contents
• Fear of Not Being Good Enough
2 Understanding the Nature of Fear
5 How Society Responds to Mental Distress
• What Has Changed, and for the Better?
• Popular but Confusing Diagnoses
• Choosing a Desperate Defence
• Punishing the Body to Ease the Mind
8 Turning Fear into Depression
• Public Discourse - Muddle and Confusion
9 Turning Fear into Anxiety, Panic and Phobias
• Relinquishing Panic, Phobias and Fear
11 Turning Fear into Obsessions and Compulsions
• Doubt, Hate and the Denial of Feeling
12 Turning Fear into Schizophrenia