Sane New World

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. 
STEPHEN FRY




CARRIE FISHER


PETER FONAGY, Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis at UCL





MARK WILLIAMS, author of MINDFULNESS
"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 of 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." 

"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."

"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 21st 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."

"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."