Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison gives us a way of understanding our depression which matches our experience & which enables us to take charge of our life & change it. Dorothy Rowe shows us that depression is not an illness or a mental disorder but a defence against pain & fear which we can use whenever we suffer a disaster & discover that our life is not what we thought it was. Depression is an unwanted consequence of how we see ourselves & the world. By understanding how we have interpreted events in our life we can choose to change our interpretations & thus create for ourselves a happier more fulfilling life. Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison is for depressed people their family & friends & for all professionals & non-professionals who work with depressed people.