How to Stay Sane, Philippa Perry
How to Stay Sane, Philippa Perry
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How to Stay Sane

Author: Philippa Perry

Narrator: Zoe-Anne Phillips

Unabridged: 3 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/24/2012

Categories: Nonfiction, Psychology


Synopsis

An Economist Best Book of the Year

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.

The School of Life is dedicated to exploring life's big questions in highly-portable paperbacks, featuring French flaps and deckle edges, that the New York Times calls "damnably cute." We don't have all the answers, but we will direct you towards a variety of useful ideas that are guaranteed to stimulate, provoke, and console.

About Philippa Perry

PHILIPPA PERRY is a psychotherapist and writer who has written pieces for The Guardian, The Observer, Time Out, and Healthy Living magazine and has a column in Psychologies Magazine. 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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Amir on October 22, 2017

Faaaar better than I expected. Controlling and maintaining the balance of your mental being is the focus of this book which is fulfilled by examining the four following areas: 1. Self-observation 2. Relationship (quite interesting and insightful chapter) 3. Stress 4. Personal story. Thorough review soon.......more

Goodreads review by Hilary on March 16, 2020

Very nice, easy to read, straightforward book about keeping your sanity. Exercises to work through your worries and fears. This is certainly a book I would come back to if I felt troubled by mental health problems and would highly recommend giving this a go to anyone who needs some help.......more

Goodreads review by Tamara on April 13, 2013

Short and surprisingly helpful. Favorite Quotes Sanity falls into two groups: one of people who have strayed into chaos and whose lives lurch from crisis to crisis, and ones who are in a rut and operate from a limited set of outdated rigid responses. Some of us manage to belong to both groups at once.......more

Goodreads review by Hestia on May 06, 2020

I read in English but this review is in Bahasa Indonesia Plato compares the soul to a chariot being pulled by two horses. The driver is Reason, one horse is Spirit, the horse is Appetite. Aku sesungguhnya sudah tidak antusias dengan kehadiran Big Bad Wolf Indonesia. Ketika acara tersebut masih dih......more

Goodreads review by Leo on September 30, 2014

Great! Filled with all-too-recognisable (all me) character studies and advice to avoid negative spirals and achieve your goals!......more


Quotes

“Self-Help Books for the Rest of Us.” —The New York Times

“Sanity, Philippa Perry shows in this brilliant little book, is not about normality, but about how to maintain a flexible position between rigidity and chaos.” —The Economist, Books of the Year

“[Perry's] inviting tone (complimented by lighthearted illustrations throughout) and friendly prose make this an accessible addition to the School of Life publications.” —Publishers Weekly

“Using stories from her therapy practice to illustrate her points as well as numerous exercises to conduct alone, with a loved one or within a group, Perry brings new light to a well-visited subject.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Perry offers guidance that is both revelatory and achievable.” —Booklist

“In an age of moral and practical confusions, the self-help book is crying out to be redesigned and rehabilitated. The School of Life announces a rebirth with a series that examines the great issues of life, including money, sanity, work, technology, and the desire to alter the world for the better.” —Alain de Botton, The School of Life Series Editor

“The School of Life offers radical ways to help us raid the treasure trove of human knowledge.” —The Independent on Sunday (London)