How to Stay Sane

Philippa Perry

ISBN 10: 1447202309 / ISBN 13: 9781447202301

Published by Pan Publishing (edition Main Market Ed.), 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How to Stay Sane
• Publisher: Pan Publishing (edition Main Market Ed.)
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1447202309
• ISBN 13: 9781447202301
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Main Market Ed.
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

Everyone accepts the importance of physical health; isn't it just as important to aim for the mental equivalent? Philippa Perry has come to the rescue with How to Stay Sane -- a maintenance manual for the mind.

Years of working as a psychotherapist showed Philippa Perry what approaches produced positive change in her clients and how best to maintain good mental health. In How to Stay Sane, she has taken these principles and applied them to self-help. Using ideas from neuroscience and sound psychological theory, she shows us how to better understand ourselves. Her idea is that if we know how our minds form and develop, we are less at the mercy of unknown unconscious processes. In this way, we can learn to be the master of our feelings and not their slave.

This is a smart, pithy, readable book that everyone with even a passing interest in their psychological health will find useful.

About the Author

PHILIPPA PERRY is a psychotherapist and writer who has written for numerous newspapers and magazines. In 2010 she wrote the graphic novel Couch Fiction, in an attempt to demystify psychotherapy. She lives in London and Sussex with her husband, the artist Grayson Perry, and enjoys gardening, cooking, parties, walking, tweeting and watching telly.