Dorothy Rowe

Clinical psychologist and author

Dorothy Rowe is a clinical psychologist and writer, and an expert on research into the biological basis of mental disorder. Rowe was born and raised in New South Wales, Australia. She emigrated to the UK in 1968, and in 1972 set up and headed the Lincolnshire Department of Clinical Psychology. In 1986, she left the National Health Service to become self-employed.

Rowe is now an Emeritus Associate of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. She writes regularly for Saga Magazine and Openmind, as well as for newspapers and magazines. She appears frequently in the media, and is the author of 12 books; her best-known is Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison, which is now in its third edition, having originally won the Mind Book of the Year Award in 1984.