Title: Personality formation through a fear framework
Product review: This is an important and thorough exposition of the affects of fear (and other factors) in early childhood in the development of the self. It is hard to fault much of the theory of the book (679 pages) but it is still a book of its time. Rowe apparently dislikes psychiatrists and seems to feel they are basically superficial and too ready to classify diagnoses using the DSM and then prescribing harmful drugs. She probably takes the fear concept too far when she talks about schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in light of the recent discoveries of brain research. She also seems to believe ADHD is more a new fashionable diagnosis than a very useful concept of the way some brains function.There is much more to this book to do it justice here. Thoroughly recommended.
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