{"product_id":"a-therapeutic-journey-lessons-from-the-school-of-life-9781916753136","title":"A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from the School of Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlain de Botton's redemptive volume - now in paperback - charts a course from collapse to recovery with kindness, compassion and wisdom.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Alain de Botton, one of our era's most uncommonly perceptive, lyrical, and lucid existential contemplatives.\" \u003cb\u003e-- The Marginalian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Therapeutic Journey is a collection of essays about mental challenge and health. Written with kindness, knowledge and sympathy, it is a practical guide to well-being and a source of consolation and companionship in what might be some of our loneliest, most anguished moments.\u003cbr\u003eAlain 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.\u003cbr\u003eAt heart this is a book about happiness - about regaining the thread of our lives, rediscovering meaning, and finding our way back to connection, warmth and joy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e School of Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/08\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781916753136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.30w x 1.20d","brand":"Alain de Botton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44637659693237,"sku":"9781916753136","price":14.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_bb1c9e87-356a-4cd7-8625-754bb020b6b0.jpg?v=1726582368","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-therapeutic-journey-lessons-from-the-school-of-life-9781916753136","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}