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An highly original account of psychology through the discipline's great practitioners ( Freud, Jung etc) and their thoughts. It functions both as narrative and by extension a sophisticated self-help book. To be compared with Sarah Bakewell's How to Live and Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Philosophy

The Act of Living: What the Great Psychologists Can Teach Us About Surviving Discontent in an Age of Anxiety