A distinguished psychiatrist and avid gardener offers an inspiring and consoling work about the healing effects of gardening and its ability to decrease stress and foster mental well-being in our everyday lives.
Essential and pragmatic, The Well-Gardened Mind is a book for gardeners and the perfect read for people seeking healthier mental lives..
Recent research is showing how green Nature has direct antidepressant effects on humans.
From her grandfather\'s return from World War I to Freud\'s obsession with flowers to case histories with her own patients to progressive gardening programs in such places as Rikers Island prison in New York City, Stuart-smith weaves thoughtful yet powerful examples to argue that gardening is much more important to our cognition than we think.
Stuart-Smith\'s own love of gardening developed as she studied to become a psychoanalytic psychotherapist.
Here, Sue Stuart-smith investigates the many ways in which mind and garden can interact and explores how the process of tending a plot can be a way of sustaining an innermost self.
The Well-Gardened Mind provides a new perspective on the Power of gardening to change people\'s lives.
Gardening is one of the quintessential nurturing activities and yet we understand so little about it.
But when we get our hands in the earth we connect with the cycle of life in Nature through which destruction and decay are followed by regrowth and renewal.
The garden is often seen as a refuge, a place to forget worldly cares, removed from the real life that lies outside.
A distinguished psychiatrist and avid gardener offers an inspiring and consoling work about the healing effects of gardening and its ability to decrease stress and foster mental well-being in our everyday lives
