Sue Stuart-Smith – The Well Gardened Mind

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In a powerful combination of contemporary neuroscience, psychoanalysis and brilliant storytelling The Well Gardened Mind investigates the magic that many gardeners have known for years – working with nature can radically transform our health, wellbeing and confidence.

Sue Stuart-Smith tells brilliant, illuminating stories of people struggling with stress, depression, trauma and addiction, from asylum seekers to veterans, inner-city young people to the retired. This is a glorious book of science, insight and anecdote that shows how our understanding of nature and its restorative powers is only just beginning to flower.

Dr Sue Stuart-Smith, a prominent psychiatrist and psychotherapist, worked in the National Health Service for many years, becoming the lead clinician for psychotherapy in Hertfordshire. Her bestselling book, The Well Gardened Mind, published in 2020 was a Times and Sunday Times book of the year. It has since been translated into eighteen languages.  Along with her husband, Tom Stuart-Smith, she has founded a not-for-profit initiative called The Serge Hill Project for Gardening, Creativity and Health which incorporates a unique living Plant Library and is based in an old orchard near their home in Hertfordshire. The project provides resources for local schools and mental health charities, offering opportunities to connect with nature for those who have least access.