{"product_id":"a-therapeutic-journey-lessons-from-the-school-of-life-9781915087478","title":"A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from the School of Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlain de Botton's redemptive volume charts a course from collapse to recovery with kindness, compassion and wisdom.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Alain de Botton, one of our era's most uncommonly perceptive, lyrical, and lucid existential contemplatives.\" -- \u003cb\u003eThe Marginalian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Therapeutic Journey \u003c\/i\u003efollows the arc from mental crisis and collapse, to convalescence and recovery. Written with kindness, knowledge and sympathy, it is both a practical guide and a source of consolation and companionship in what might be some of our loneliest, most anguished moments.In this blueprint for enduring a period of mental anguish, Alain de Botton explores how we can cope with a variety of forms of mental pain and illness, from the mild to the severe. It considers how and why we might become ill; how we can explain things to friends, family and colleagues; how we can find our ways towards recovery; and how we can build resilience, so as to live wisely alongside our difficulties.At heart this is a book about redemption--about regaining the thread of our lives, rediscovering meaning, and finding our way back to connection, warmth and joy.An invaluable literary companion through the loneliness of mental illness. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e School of Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/10\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781915087478\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384","brand":"Alain de Botton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43084254609589,"sku":"9781915087478","price":21.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_cb3478d3-35fc-43d4-8343-4e8d83fc6da9.jpg?v=1692113140","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-therapeutic-journey-lessons-from-the-school-of-life-9781915087478","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}