Sue Stuart-Smith in Conversation with Edmund de Waal: The Well-Gardened Mind
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The pace of life is the pace of plants.
Sue Stuart-Smith’s book The Well Gardened Mind, argues that our increasingly urbanised and technology-dependent lifestyles make it more important than ever to rediscover a closer relationship with the earth. Sue 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.
On 3rd November 2020, Sue was interviewed by artist and author Edmund de Waal, delving deeper into the science behind the restorative power of gardening and its ability to change people’s lives, in a conversation drawing on Sue’s extensive experience as a psychiatrist and psychotherapist.
Biographical information
Sue studied English Literature at the University of Cambridge before qualifying as a doctor and working in the National Health Service for many years, becoming the lead clinician for psychotherapy in Hertfordshire. She currently teaches at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust in London and is a consultant at DocHealth, a not for profit, psychotherapeutic consultation service for doctors.
She is married to Tom Stuart-Smith, the celebrated garden designer, and, over thirty years together, they have created the wonderful Barn Garden in Hertfordshire.
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