A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from The School of Life

Very unique perspective and stories shared. Best friend loved it and I see why. Get this book!

I fell in love with this book and have been going through it practically page by page with my therapist. I love it so much I've purchased copies for folks I know. It almost feels like the author was sitting like a fly on the wall for my tormented childhood. Lots of insights about why I feel the way I do and, more importantly, insights into how to talk to others about difficult topics.

this is a nice book is terms of cover. i bought this for a gift exchange. i read some of the passages before exchanging. really thoughtful and inciteful. I kind of want a copy of the book myself.

Absolutly great book, thanks to Alain De Botton, great work of reaching the mind and heart and even the soul lovely work, a book that ill be repeatedly reading

Compassion and psychological insight at its finest, with clarity and elegance in delivery. Intriguing stories of relation, with an incorporation of creativity and art as an avenue for the afflicted to express what they are going through. This book is like a kind friend that understands. Thank you for this and your other work.

This book addresses what we all know. Our mental health is on a pendulum and we all find ourselves in valleys in different phases of modern life. This book really de stigmatizes this truth and allows you to be okay with yourself and understand others with more compassion. Recommend!

This teaches you what it looks like to be gentle with and love yourself. I've always wondered and now I know...

If it were up to me, I'd have every mental health professional read this book as part of the education. I'd also give every person struggling with mental health a copy. In addition to general life advice, there are some excellent insights on love and maintaining relationships.

Written so beautifully I bought the audio book to read it again.

This is a book of great value, written carefully, lovingly. What De Botton has written is staggeringly pithy, so chock-full of wisdom, and sober but gentle truths, that I read and digested it only a few pages at a time. I had started to make notes and dog-ear the pages, but then it seemed my notes would become the entire book, and every page would have its corner turned over. Having read many similar works and done a great deal of the work, I can reverently say that Alain de Botton's "Therapeutic Journey" is a gem I hold dear.

A really good book. I love Alain de Botton.

Know the state of your mental wellness. Never underestimate the power of early childhood impressions on way you live ur life. Your defensiveness may have roots there. In relationships, its OK to show your displeasure and be vulnerable...boundaries help. Art over years has helped calm minds. It highlights the common things around us that give immense pleasure but go unrecognized...look at crushed pillow on ur bed after good night rest. At the same time modernity has many elements that provoke unrest unless one is mindful...meritocracy often leads to inference that those who are not successful are lazy or stupid, which is harsh untrue assessment. Book has several such beautiful lessons shared in digestible short chapters Must read

Got to know this book through You Tube videos of the same brilliant brains behind the author. And I must same this a master piece. Written very well to attune to our day to day lives. Thanks you so much Alain de Botton.