Mental health, mindfulness and comic self-observation come together throughout Ruby Wax’s nonfiction. Sane New World mixes memoir, neuroscience and mindfulness exercises in an attempt to explain why thought patterns become overwhelming. A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled develops a more structured programme around attention and stress, while How to Be Human, written with a neuroscientist and a Buddhist monk, brings different perspectives to emotion and behaviour. I’m Not as Well as I Thought I Was returns more strongly to memoir through a period of serious depression. Wax’s prose is fast, candid and funny, using comedy to make difficult subjects readable without pretending that humour removes illness. The strongest shelf associations are mental-health memoir, mindfulness and popular psychology. Read more Less
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