by William Seabrook
Recommended by Ryan Holiday
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Books Recommended by Ryan Holiday, Most Recommended Books, and Psychology.
"Perhaps the most honest and haunting accounts of the struggle for mental health in literature." ? ObserverThis dramatic memoir recounts an eightmonth stay at a Westchester mental hospital in the early 1930s. William Seabrook, a renowned journalist and explorer, voluntarily committed himself to an asylum for treatment of acute alcoholism. His sinc...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Books Recommended by Ryan Holiday, Most Recommended Books, and Psychology.
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Consider The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy. Recommended by 8 sources.
“Soft-spoken, heavily illustrated fable built from short dialogues and watercolor sketches. Each spread pairs a spare line of text with a loose drawing, so the pleasure is visual and aphoristic rather than narrative; readers collect felt-true sentences more than plot. Most useful when you want quick consolations, a prompt for conversation with a child, or a pause during a rough day. Limiting if you want sustained argument, concrete advice, or tightly plotted storytelling: the repetition of gentleness can feel sentimental or thin after a while.”
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