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29Nov

When Breath Becomes Air: Why We Should All Read More About Death

Clare Simmonds

books, death, illness, mortality

Therapists

Therapist Clare Simmonds reviews Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air
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22Aug

The Only Girl in the World: A Memoir

Julia Bueno

abuse, books

Therapists

Maude Julien's memoir recounts a childhood spent in isolation, raised by abusive parents who believed it was their duty to raise her into the ultimate 'superhuman'
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05Jul

Growing up in the Rajneesh Cult: My Life in Orange by Tim Guest

Louise Chunn

books, therapy, TV

Soul

Tim Guest was only five when his mother took him into the Bhagwan Rajneesh cult. With the popularity of Netflix's Wild Wild Country, his book My Life in Orange is re-published
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14Jun

In Search of the Meaning of Motherhood

Julia Bueno

books, infertility, mother, motherhood

Therapists

Jessica Hepburn tried many times to get pregnant using IVF. Now she has written a book about motherhood, reviewed here by therapist Julia Bueno
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26Apr

Wellcome Book Prize 2018: To Be a Machine

Sally Warren

books, Wellcomebookprize

Therapists

Wellcome Book Prize 2018 finalist To Be a Machine explores transhumanism and the desire to escape death and the fragility of the human body
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10Apr

Why Books About Mental Health Are So Important

Louise Chunn

books, wellbeing

Mind

Well-known mental health campaigners Jonny Benjamin and Natasha Devon spoke about the trend for books about mental health at the London Book Fair
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06Apr

Wellcome Book Prize 2018: Mayhem by Sigrid Rausing

Louise Chunn

addiction, books, Wellcomebookprize

Soul

Out of a horrendous chapter in her family's life – the death of her drug-addicted sister-in-law – Sigrid Rausing has wrought a seering memoir, finalist in the Wellcome Book Prize 2018
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20Mar

Wellcome Book Prize 2018 Shortlist Announced

Welldoing

books, Wellcomebookprize

Mind

Novels, memoirs and serious science books make up this year's shortlist in the highly-regarded Wellcome Book Prize 2018
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23Feb

All That Man Is: Tales of Masculinity at Odds with Itself

Julia Bueno

books, men

Therapists

David Szalay’s latest novel, All That Man Is, is a valuable contribution to understanding the way some men look at the world
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14Feb

Susie Orbach's In Therapy: The Unfolding Story

Susie Orbach

books, therapy

Mind

In the latest edition of her book of dramatised case studies, London psychotherapist Susie Orbach muses on what brings people to therapy
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