A few years ago, I asked myself a question: if I could bottle the main lessons that I have learned as a psychotherapist, what would they be? After a lot of contemplation I came up with six fundamental truths that I think are the basis for a good life, which I then wrote about in my book Think Like a Therapist.

There were six principles that arose from the ideas behind being a therapist, the bedrock assumptions and ideas that I felt anchored to as a therapist. It was a book about how to think more wisely about life, specifically about what makes for a good life.

What makes for a good life is a question that has perplexed philosophers throughout the ages and is now posed by psychologists and psychotherapists.

Psychotherapy is ultimately a discussion about the good life and a vision of how to lead it. Psychotherapy helps us to explore ourselves and what life means to us. It is about learning to be ourselves, and to become free of our conditioning.

Most of the time, we are living in a deluded reality in which we behave as if we will live forever, and as if what other people think about us is more important than what we think about........

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