DOROTHY ROWE
BREAKING THE BONDS
Understanding Depression, Finding Freedom
HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF
Published by HarperPress 2006
Previously published in paperback by HarperCollins 1994
Reprinted eleven times
Previously published in paperback by Fontana 1991
Reprinted two times
First published in Great Britain as The Depression Handbook by HarperCollinsPublishers 1991
Copyright © Dorothy Rowe 1991
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Contents
2 Depression – the Painful Isolation
Finding the Source of Our Greatest Fear
4 Believing That We Are Not Good Enough
Drawing the Conclusion ‘I Am Bad’
Becoming An Expert in Feeling Guilty
Compensations for Believing ‘I Am Bad’
5 Constructing Our Prison of Depression
How Thoughts and Images Create a Prison
How Pat Built her Prison of Depression
How the Six Beliefs Fit Together
II Why Is It So Hard To Change?