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How to live. 1, How we are / Vincent Deary.

by Deary, Vincent.

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Allen Lane, 2014.

Change (Psychology)

Philosophical anthropology.

Human beings -- Psychology.

Human beings in literature.

Conduct of life.

9780241005385 (hc.)

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261 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

We live in small worlds. The first book in the How To Live trilogy, How We Are explores the power of habit and the difficulty of change. A story told in three parts, this trilogy gets right to the heart of what it means to be human: how we work, how we break, and how we mend. We live most of our lives automatically, in a more or less comfortable routine - what the author calls Act One. Conscious change requires deliberate effort, and so, for the most part, we avoid it. But inevitably something will come along to disturb our small worlds - some News From Elsewhere. And with ingrained reluctance, we begin the work of adjustment: Act Two. Over decades of psychotherapeutic work, Deary has been a witness to the theatre of change - the way that ordinary people get stuck, struggle with new circumstances, and eventually transform their lives and get better. He is also keenly aware that novelists, poets, philosophers and theologians have grappled with these experiences for far longer than psychologists have. A mesmerizing and universal portrait of the human condition. Part psychologist, part philosopher, part novelist, Deary helps us to see how we can resist being mere habit machines, and make our acts and our lives more fully our own. Vincent Deary is a psychologist at Northumbria University. Future titles in the trilogy will be: How We Break and How We Mend.

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