The School of Life: On Mental Illness (eBook)

What can calm, reassure and console

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
The School of Life (Verlag)
978-1-915087-21-8 (ISBN)

Infos

A compassionate guide to normalizing mental illness and achieving emotional wellbeing.This is a guide to coping with a wide variety of mental unwellness, from the very mild to the severe. It explains how and why we become mentally ill, how we can explain our experiences to friends and family, and how we can reframe our view of ourselves and our future in order to thrive.With a humane, encouraging tone, the book teaches us to dismantle stigmas around mental health, arguing that no one should suffer alone. By normalizing mental illness and seeking out shared experiences and supportive friendships, we feel less alone on our journeys.Written with kindness, knowledge and sympathy, and drawing upon the experience of The School of Life therapists, this book is an essential tool to help us on the way to our recovery.AN ACCESSIBLE GUIDE:To mental health and wellbeing.THOROUGHLY RESEARCHED:By The School of Lifes therapy department.FOCUSES ON REFRAMING:Mental unwellness through compassionate lens.COMPASSIONATE NORMALIZATION:Of anxiety, depression and trauma.CHAPTERS INCLUDE:Reasons to Live, Acceptance, Love, Community, Psychotherapy, Perspective and Gratitude.

Autor

The School of Life is a global organization helping people lead more fulfilled lives. Through our range of books, gifts and stationery we aim to prompt more thoughtful natures and help everyone to find fulfillment. The School of Life is a resource for exploring self-knowledge, relationships, work, socializing, finding calm and enjoying culture through content, community and conversation. You can find us online, in stores and in welcoming spaces around the world offering classes, events and one-to-one therapy sessions. The School of Life is a rapidly growing global brand, with over 7 million YouTube subscribers, 389,000 Facebook followers, 246,000 Instagram followers and 163,000 Twitter followers. The School of Life Press brings together the thinking and ideas of the School of Life creative team under the direction of series editor, Alain de Botton.

Inhalt

Introduction
Therapeutic Moves
1. Reasons to Live
2. Acceptance
3. Pills
4. Regulation
5. Love
6. Community
7. Psychotherapy
8. Modernity
9. Self-Compassion
10. Gratitude
11. Perspective
12. Work
13. Pessimism
14. Scepticism
Conclusion

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.4.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Angst / Depression / Zwang
• Schlagworte: acceptance • Accessible Guide • Alain de Botton • Anxiety • calm • Community • Compassionate • Consolation • Depression • Gratitude • hopeful • Live • Love • Mental Health • Mental Unwellness • Perspective • psychotherapy • respite • The School of Life • Trauma
• ISBN-10: 1-915087-21-X / 191508721X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-915087-21-8 / 9781915087218