SANE NEW WORLD: TAMING THE MIND
Book ID/图书代码： 06400013B63249
English Summary/英文概要： Ruby Wax - comedian, writer and mental health campaigner - shows us how our minds can jeopardize our sanity.
With her own periods of depression and now a Masters from Oxford in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy to draw from, she explains how our busy, chattering, self-critical thoughts drive us to anxiety and stress.
If we are to break the cycle, we need to understand how our brains work, rewire our thinking and find calm in a frenetic world.
Helping you become the master, not the slave, of your mind, here is the manual to saner living.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 以腦科學了解情緒運作的原理
馴服瘋狂的心靈TED講師 英國喜劇演員Ruby Wax
幽默淺白分享走出憂鬱幽谷的個人經歷及學理
Ruby Wax在TED的演講：精神病有什麼好笑的？
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/zh-tw/ruby_wax_what_s_so_funny_about_mental_illness.html
為觀眾帶來歡笑，臉上時常帶著笑容的喜劇演員，竟也是憂鬱症的受害者？
快步調、全天候無休的現代生活模式早就超過我們天生所能負載的上限，壓力和焦慮讓情緒瀕臨爆走邊緣，許多生理心理疾病因而滋長。只要是人，無一倖免。
英國喜劇演員Ruby Wax與憂鬱症抗戰十多年，從兒提時代開始，她每隔幾年就會被憂鬱症纏身。因為怕失去最愛的工作，曾有一段時間她只能過著在螢光幕前帶給觀眾歡樂，到幕後卻獨自攤在病床上悲傷的日子，因為沒有人想看到帶給大家歡笑的諧星憂鬱。對她而言，要向大眾坦承自己有憂鬱症，需要多大的勇氣與決心！
為與疾病和平共處，進而搶得戰勝的機會，Ruby Wax研究正念認知療法(MBCT，Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy)多年，還獲頒牛津大學碩士學位。她以幽默口吻、深入淺出的方式，用個人經歷及所學佐證，從腦科學開始向大眾說明人類腦袋運作的方式，分析哪些舉動與想法是正常人腦的運作，而不是妳自尋煩惱。書中最後一章說明如何運用MBCT平靜身心，在這忙亂嘈雜的世界中尋得一絲心靈淨土。
(Eva)
Awards/获奖情况：Ruby Wax has an extraordinary mind, and she has brought it to bear with trademark wit and searing honesty on the subject of that mind, and the minds of all us. Very few will be able to read this wonderful contribution to the literature of mental health without recognising some part of themselves, and certainly of someone they know. A ruby beyond price. (Stephen Fry)
I love this book more than I love Ruby. And that’s saying quite a bit...in a loud, funny voice. Yes...I love this book. And I know books. And I know love. And Ruby’s book is both. (Carrie Fisher)
Ruby Wax combats ignorance with knowledge, confusion with crystal clarity, prejudice with open-mindedness, rigidity with humour and slays the dragon of stigma in this superb introduction to the twenty-first century science of the mind. This book will be a turning point in our battle to bring parity of esteem to mental and physical health. Explaining in simple language the nature of mental disorder and describing evocatively what you can do about it, is a substantial contribution to making our society a better place. This manual for living must be read by everyone. (Peter Fonagy, Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis at UCL)
Ruby Wax is at her best in this wonderful book. Its acute observations are both extremely funny and deeply moving. Many people will be grateful for her courage, openness, humour and wisdom. (Mark Williams, author of Mindfulness)
Ruby Wax combines neuroscience with her usual eloquence, clarity and humour. You will laugh and cry but certainly understand more about how to live a ’sane’ life in our crazy, chaotic world. (Marjorie Wallace CBE, founder of SANE)
In Sane New World, Wax touches upon her own anxieties and fears with honesty and humour...it royally hauls a stigmatised fact of life kicking and laughing into the open. (The Times)
Her wonderful, painfully funny and instructive book has inspired this depressive to sign up for mindfulness training. (Alison Pearson, The Telegraph)
The book does succeed as a ’life manual’ exactly because it is Ruby Wax who has written it...her life-affirming humour carries it through on a tide of quirky jokes and separate anecdotes from her life. (Daily Express)
About the Author/作者介绍： Arriving in Britain from the United States in 1977, Ruby Wax began her acting career with the Royal Shakespeare Company. She went on to write and perform in her own hugely popular television programmes for the BBC and Channel 4 and was Script Editor on all series of Absolutely Fabulous. Recently she has obtained a Masters degree in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy from Oxford University and spoke at TEDGlobal. She has become the poster girl for mental illness in the UK.
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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE
Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Foreign sales for SANE NEW WORLD: China (Beijing Huazhang), Estonia (Kirjastus Pegasus), The Netherlands (Unieboek Het Spectrum), Poland (Wydawnictwo Studio Astropsychologii), Portugal (Marcador), Russia (Exmo), Spain (Ediciones Obelisco), Turkey (Pegasus Yayincilik)
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