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A Therapeutic Journey
- Lessons from the School of Life
- Narrated by: Charlie Anson
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
The essential guide to mental health from the bestselling author of The School of Life
This is a book about getting unwell. About losing direction and hope. About imagining that we have let ourselves and everyone down.
But it is also a book about getting better. About regaining the thread, rediscovering meaning and finding a way back to connection and joy.
Here, Alain de Botton follows the arc of a mental health journey, from crisis to recuperation; the moments we realize we cannot cope; the acts of selfcare or therapy in which we find respite; and the days we finally reclaim a sense of stability. Written with understanding and kindness, it is both a source of companionship in our loneliest moments - whether it's a relationship breakdown, a career setback or anxiety around the everyday - and a practical guide that will help us find reasons for hope.
We are all on our own journey towards recovery. This book is for anyone ready to understand theirs.
Critic reviews
'Alain de Botton is a brave and highly intelligent writer' Observer
'One of our most consistently illuminating writers on contemporary culture' John Gray, New Statesman
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- Maro
- 20-03-24
Normalising life
Beautifully read Aidiobook, normalised the story of life. Loved the cultural references to art and literature
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- Denisa P
- 17-01-24
Very well laid out journey
For anyone who has honestly reflected upon the highs and lows of their life, this book has a deep and soothing familiarity. Very good.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-01-24
Calming
Whenever you need calming words, listen this. It is therapeutic and calming and readers voice is clear and a pleasure to listen.
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- george
- 12-11-23
Every human being should read this book.
It should be available in schools, prisons, and all institutions. It demystifies and the normalises the everyday struggle and the anxiety most of us experience and it tells you how to deal with it in a kind,gentle and brilliant way. Suitable for anyone with any mental struggles, addictions or depression. Read it and understand the human condition.
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- Thomas John Carlisle
- 30-11-23
Restorative
Found this such a thoughtful, hopeful listen. It's very precise in distilling emotional truth, deeply resonant in its description of how it feels to be in despair and the simple things that can bring life.
I've found this a healing book, one that's lifted me out of a dark time and helped me acknowledge the grounds for hope - and my own need for help.
It's not the full picture, but there are other books that delve more deeply into neuroscience etc... this book is where you should go if you're feeling exhausted and at your limit.
Not everyone will love it, but those who do will realise it quickly. Give the sample a go before you buy it.
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- Parinetha
- 02-04-24
The gentle truth
Alain does a great job of helping take us from the known to the unknown, in a gentle way to help the reader find the truth of their temporary pitfalls stop on life.
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- Andrew
- 25-01-24
A friend in a book.
This book is like a talk with a good friend, who has your interest at heart.
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- Michele Dashwood
- 28-02-24
a calm gentle realistic helpful hand to hold - informative gently humorous
calm gentle realistic helpful guide done with gentle humour about the human condition. comforting. I would have loved to hear Alain narrate this but it worked very well all the same. This was a hand to hold when I needed it. Thank you x
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- Pelx
- 09-01-24
The book has no table of contents.
I used to like Alain's but when I started to listen to this one I wasn`t impressed. It was too wordly. I decided to try middle content and .... there is no Table of contents! only "Chapter... 1....38". The book that is supposed to become your help became useless.
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- Kindle Customer
- 23-11-23
Very disappointing
I saw his talk and my expectations were high but unfortunately they were dashed. I found the perspective on child development very limited in its scope. Lots about psychodynamics but other disciplines and perspectives (evolutionary, biological, existential, cognitive etc.) just don't seem to exist from De Botton's perspective. He also states as facts things about development, mental illness, parenting and the mind that are still very much up for the debate. The fact that he does this with no need for reference to any data or science makes it so much less credible or interesting.At times it verges on a bt of a rant. Also at times his references to suicide seem glib and inappropriate, it is as if our only recourse when feeling a bit insane is to think suicidal thoughts, self harm is only one way the mind goes out to lunch. Of course that is because the clear data on these things is still in its infant stages. Add to this, the fact that it is lacking in a clear thread or sense of narrative, drily written with barely a nod in the direction of his usual humour and it makes for a fairly awful read. For me this book did not do its job, it didn't take me on a therapeutic journey, it didn't provide any self help and it didn't offer anything new in terms of science or philosophy.
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