{"product_id":"a-therapeutic-journey-alain-de-botton-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\u003cp\u003e\"Alain de Botton, one of our era's most uncommonly perceptive, lyrical, and lucid existential contemplatives.\" -- \u003cb\u003eThe Marginalian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\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\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alain de Botton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1915087473\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781915087478\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e School of Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/10\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.20w x 1.10d","brand":"Alain de Botton","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44129095418111,"sku":"9781915087478","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_01956600-d1fe-434e-bf6d-a9767acbae5d.jpg?v=1687462030","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-therapeutic-journey-alain-de-botton-9781915087478","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}