This is the book that was my bedside companion for the late weeks Lou Marinoff's Plato not prozac a book that in is main essence is philosophical but that explores the budist, taoist among others teachings, I Ching included and applies them to our everyday situations. From my point of view help us being more racionals when emotions cloud our visions or vice versa letting us do bad choices and being more stuck in the moving sands that sometimes appears in our lives. It also approaches the motivations that are hidden behind the situations, on the individual backstage, ours and theirs. The book´s title has everything to do with the book itself, the author during the book explains that medicine comes up with sindroms and more simdroms and pharmaceuticals take economic advantage of it producing miraculous drogues and common people drawn in them, when sometimes just a conversation with someone more enlighten would do, by offering a diferent perspective of the situation being delt with. Of course the author isn´t a radicalist towards treatment drugs but defends that all kinds of diseases and situations aren't treatable by this way only. A book that i recommend not only for someone who's going trough a bad phase but also to those who interrest themselves for the knowledge of this strange criatures that we all are. In one short sentence and inverting Anais Nin saying it helps us seeing things as they are and not as we are.

Wouldn't it be nice if our society pushed Plato a little more than it pushes prozac?!? Tragically, Plato and his philosopher buddies don't have quite the same marketing budget as our friendly pharmaceuticals…  I think you'll enjoy this witty and practical look at applied philosophy as much as I did.