Beyond Fear

图书信息

作者	Dorothy Rowe
出版社	Harper Perennial
ISBN	9780007369140
出版时间	2011-06-23
字数	129.1万
分类	进口书,外文原版书,励志自助,心灵

读书简介

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.

目录

Cover

Title

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

Part 1- Fear and the Fear of Fear

Chapter One: The Nature of Fear

• Fight or Flight

• Unavoidable Conflicts

• Fear of Life and Death

• Fear of Not Being Good Enough

Chapter Two: Understanding the Nature of Fear

• Brains and Minds

• Our Greatest Fear

• A Choice of Defences

Chapter Three: Fear Denied

• Denying Fear as ‘Character’

• Denying Other People’s Pain

Chapter Four: Learning How to Deny

• The Perils of Childhood

• The Perils of Sexuality

• Denying Who You Are

Chapter Five: How Society Responds to Mental Distress

• What Has Stayed the Same?

• What Has Changed, and for the Better?

Part 2 - The Alternatives

Chapter Six: Choosing a Defence

• Popular but Confusing Diagnoses

• Choosing a Desperate Defence

Chapter Seven: A Bodily Solution?

• Not Frightened, Just Ill

• From Fear to Illness

• Punishing the Body to Ease the Mind

Chapter Eight: Turning Fear into Depression

• The Story of Depression

• Public Discourse - Muddle and Confusion

• Do Pills Cure Depression?

• The Way Out of the Prison

Chapter Nine: Turning Fear into Anxiety,: Panic and Phobias

• Panic and the Fear of Panic

• Relinquishing Panic, Phobias and Fear

Chapter Ten: Turning Fear into Mania

• The Manic Defence

• Finding Yourself

Chapter Eleven: Turning Fear into Obsessions: and Compulsions

• Doubt, Hate and the Denial of Feeling

• Gaining Freedom

Chapter Twelve: Turning Fear into Schizophrenia

• An Idea Called Schizophrenia

• Are Drugs the Answer?

• Hearing Voices

• The Road to Recovery

Chapter Thirteen: Turning Fear into Courage

Notes

Books and Websites

Index

Acknowledgements

Copyright

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