A therapeutic journey

The essential guide to mental health from the bestselling author of The School of LifeThis 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 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 recovery. 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 an anxiety around the everyday – and a practical guide that will help us find reasons for hope.Praise for Alain de Botton:´What he has managed to do is remarkable: to help us think better so that we may live better lives´ Irish Times´Alain de Botton likes to take big, complex subjects and write about them with thoughtful and deceptive innocence´ Observer´One of our most consistently illuminating writers on contemporary culture´ John Gray, New Statesman