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Peter Breggin website
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Dorothy Rowe's Agent: Clare Alexander
at Gillon Aitken & Associates
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Gillon Aitken Associates
http://www.gillonaitkenassociates.co.uk
Gillon Aitken Limited was founded by Gillon Aitken in 1976 and operated as a one-man band for several years. Early clients included Germaine Greer, Shiva Naipaul, V. S. Naipaul, Piers Paul Read, Paul Theroux, Colin Thubron and Gavin Young. In 1984, by acquisition and in partnership with Brian Stone, Gillon Aitken formed an association with Hughes Massie Limited, founded in 1905 and agents inter alia for Agatha Christie and, in the British market only, J. D. Salinger and Harper Lee. Then known as Aitken & Stone Limited, in 1998 the company's name reverted to Gillon Aitken Associates Ltd following Brian Stone's retirement. 1998 also saw the appointment of Clare Alexander to a prominent role in the affairs of the agency, whose strong development in recent years has owed much to her experience and contribution - as it has to the long-standing direction of Sally Riley in the area of foreign language rights, on which the company has traditionally placed much emphasis.
Working to Recovery
http://www.workingtorecovery.co.uk
Working to Recovery is a small training and consultancy company, based in Scotland, and specialising in mental health practice.
Biography
Dorothy Rowe is a clinical psychologist and writer who is renowned for her work on how we create meaning, and how the meanings we create determine what we do. Her application of this understanding to the problems of mental distress has changed many people's lives for the better, and has led many mental health professionals to think more carefully about how they deal with people who are suffering. She writes regularly for newspapers and magazines, appears frequently in the media, and is the author of 16 books, the most popular of which are Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison which is in its third edition, and Beyond Fear which is in its second edition.
Dorothy was born Dorothy Conn in Newcastle, NSW, Australia, in 1930. She was educated at Newcastle Girls' High and Sydney University where she obtained a degree in psychology and a Diploma of Education. She taught for three years, married in 1956 and her son Edward was born in 1957. She returned to teaching when he was two but was offered the opportunity to train as a school counsellor (educational psychologist) and went on to become Specialist for Emotionally Disturbed Children. At the same time she completed her Diploma in Clinical Psychology. In 1965 her marriage came to an end, and in 1968 she and Edward went to England. She accepted a National Health Service post at Whiteley Wood Clinic, Sheffield, which was the clinic attached to Sheffield University Department of Psychiatry where Alec Jenner, already well known for his work on the biological basis of mood change, had recently taken up his post as Professor of Psychiatry. This began Dorothy's close scrutiny of the research into the biological basis of mental disorder. She became an Associate of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and is now Emeritus Associate of the Royal College.
Alec Jenner suggested to Dorothy that her research PhD topic should be 'Psychological aspects of regular mood change'. Quite serendipitously, the psychologist Don Bannister was busy introducing British psychologists to the work of George Kelly and Personal Construct Theory. Dorothy discovered that she had always been a personal construct psychologist without knowing it. Kelly had developed a technique called repertory grids which enabled the researcher to examine the meanings which an individual had created around a particular subject or situation. Patrick Slater, a psychologist at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, provided invaluable help to Dorothy in her research by his development of computer software which analysed grids.
In 1971 Dorothy completed her PhD, and in 1972 she went to Lincolnshire to set up and head the Lincolnshire Department of Clinical Psychology. Dorothy obtained a research grant which enabled her to continue her research. This research became the basis of her first book The Experience of Depression, now called Choosing Not Losing. Her second book The Construction of Life and Death (The Courage to Live) was published in 1982. A chance discussion with the manager of a health food shop led to her third book, Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison, now in its third edition. This book won the Mind Book of the Year Award in 1984. More books followed.
In 1986 Dorothy left the National Health Service to become self-employed. She moved to Sheffield where she lived for nine years. In 1995 she moved to London.
In 2010 Dorothy was included in the Daily Telegraph's list of the 100 most powerful women in Britain in Business, Academia & Politics (Daily Telegraph 3/12/10). She is listed in Who's Who and the Who's Who of Australian Women.
In 2015 Dorothy moved back to Australia to live in Sydney in semi-retirement. Dorothy Rowe passed away on Monday 25 March 2019.
How to contact Dorothy Rowe
Edward Rowe may be contacted at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or on +61 407 913244
Welcome To The Website Of...
Dorothy Rowe
The psychologist who has changed how we understand ourselves.
"Dorothy Rowe's is the calm voice of reason in an increasingly mad world" - Sue Townsend
Dorothy Rowe is a world-renowned psychologist and writer.
She has shown how we each live in a world of meaning that we have created out of our past experiences. She applies this understanding to important aspects of our lives, including emotional distress, happiness, growing old, religious belief, politics, money, friends and enemies, extraverts and introverts, parents, children and siblings, and most recently, why we lie.
Her work liberates us from the bamboozling lies that many mental health professionals, politicians, media and business people tell in order to keep us in our place and themselves in power.
Monday 25 March 2019
Dorothy Rowe passed away peacefully today after finally succumbing to her life long battle with Bronchiectasis, an illness which she had battled since childhood but which she never allowed to get in the way of her work or, until the very end, her life.
Through her work Dorothy Rowe touched the lives of many thousands of people and, as this web site attests, changed how mental illness is treated. She also helped professionals around the world more effectively help people suffering from mental illness. While it is with great sadness that I write these words, I am also extremely proud of my mother for helping so many people throughout her long life as well as setting such solid foundations for my own life.
Edward Rowe
Donations in memory of Dorothy Rowe may be made to:
In The United Kingdom: ‘Mind’ https://www.mind.org.uk/donate
In Australia: Beyond Blue https://www.beyondblue.org.au/get-involved/make-a-donation