The Act of Living: What the Great Psychologists Can Teach Us About Surviving Discontent in an Age of Anxiety
Book Details
- Publisher : Little Brown
- Published : 2021
- Cover : Hardback
- Pages : 344
- Category :
Individual Psychotherapy - Category 2 :
Popular Psychology - Catalogue No : 96127
- ISBN 13 : 9781408711378
- ISBN 10 : 1408711370
Reviews and Endorsements
Tallis has distilled a wide range of psychological writing without oversimplifying the insights or reducing them to self-help platitudes . . . Tallis is an engaging writer and this is at heart a highly readable, often touching history of the talking cures and some of their most brilliant exponents -- Sebastian Faulks ― Sunday Times
Psychology has its rogues and charlatans but this history reminds you it is a force for good . . . his writing is brisk and clear, his narrative is both thematic and roughly chronological, which is no easy feat of organisation, and studded with heavily disguised case histories -- David Aaronovitch ― The Times
Few psychotherapists write with the clarity of Tallis . . . He also peppers the book with delightful nuggets from the psychological world . . . a gifted storyteller ― The Tablet
An engaging and expansive tour of our modern-day therapeutic landscape ― Times Literary Supplement --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.