
How We Are
Vincent Deary(Author)
Penguin Books Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 2. July 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-14-197963-2 (ISBN)
Description
We are creatures of habit, living most of our lives automatically, in small worlds of more or less comfortable routine. But sometimes outside forces compel us to adjust, and sometimes we must make changes ourselves. What happens when change disrupts our lives? This book is the first in a trilogy which offers an insight unlike any other into the human mind and heart: how we are, how we break, and how we mend. It is about all of us, humbly figuring out how to live.
Reviews / Votes
Exhilarating, lyrical, consoling... His voice is pleasingly sardonic one of a peer who finds this stuff as difficult and disorientating as the rest of us -- Oliver Burkeman * Guardian * A book about human nature. It's crammed with ideas. It makes your head spin, in a good way -- William Leith * Spectator * Fascinating, profound, wonderfully well-observed... [How We Are] could change lives -- Bel Mooney * Daily Mail * An honest, self-searching voice, rich in images and characters' stories -- Antonia Macaro * Financial Times *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
202 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-197963-2 (9780141979632)
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Person
Vincent Deary is professor of applied health psychology at Northumbria University, where his research focuses on the development of new psychosocial interventions for people with a variety of health complaints, including cancer survivors and fear of falling in older adults. As a clinician he works in the UK's first trans-diagnostic Fatigue Clinic, to help people for whom fatigue is a disabling symptom. He is the author of How We Are.