{"product_id":"a-therapeutic-journey-alain-de-botton-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\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alain de Botton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1916753132\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781916753136\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\/08\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs","brand":"Alain de Botton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46024930656511,"sku":"9781916753136","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fc66d011-b4da-40dc-96b8-211367537d65.jpg?v=1723129563","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-therapeutic-journey-alain-de-botton-9781916753136","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}