This the Second Edition of this book, published by Routledge which is an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group.Depression is the experience of a terrible isolation, of being alone in a prison. However, by understanding how we build the prison of depression we can dismantle it forever. Dorothy Rowe gives us a way of understanding depression, allowing us to take charge of our lives. She shows it is not an illness requiring drugs but a defence we use to hold ourselves together when we feel our lives falling apart. This text contains stories of people who have changed their lives by conquering depression for good.