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A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from The School of Life

By: Alain de Botton
Narrated by: Charlie Anson
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Alain de Botton's redemptive volume charts a course from collapse to recovery with kindness, compassion and wisdom.

“Alain de Botton, one of our era’s most uncommonly perceptive, lyrical, and lucid existential contemplatives.”—The Marginalian

A Therapeutic Journey follows 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.

©2023 Alain de Botton (P)2023 The School of Life Personal Development Personal Success
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For anyone struggling with the difficulty that is often life; potent, honest, and healing medicine. The school of life never disappoints. Never.

Brilliant

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Overall? Very good. But, a pdf of the art work discussed in the book is very much needed.

Needs PDF

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As always with Alain’s writing there is depth, insight and inspiration coming through every chapter. Much appreciated and I will listen at least one more time.

Familiar and honest

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I love how the School of Life tends to be comforting... regarding human nature as it exists in the here and now

Necessary and comforting

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The only thing that would’ve made this better for me is if the author had also been the narrator.

Deep, intelligent, compassionate

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excellent as usual.. there is a lot in here that is not part of other school of life literature.. worth turning to occasionally to remind ourselves how to get through difficult times

the consolations of de botton

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Practical advice, easy to apply to your own life and could really improve happiness and life in general.

Great advice

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Voiced common emotions found in the melancholic population without depth or understanding. Often made to feel worse.

Droning, superficial, Pollyanna

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