Rowe believes talk of illness and cures is unsuitable. She prefers to speak of “mental distress”, and rejects biological explanations for depression. “All the evidence has gone,” she says, citing a recent study suggesting “life events” are what trigger depression in almost every case. “What we know now from research is that people don’t suddenly become psychotic or depressed out of the blue, there’s always a disaster that they suffer, and it’s not always a disaster that other people can see is a disaster. It’s a private personal one, but it always precedes depression, psychosis, obsession, mania, all of them.”
At the heart of Rowe’s thought is the idea that depression is a crisis in the relationship between the individual and the world. She believes that, as we grow up, we each develop a set of theories about how the world works.
A life in psychology: Dorothy Rowe
via guardian.co.uk
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