All in the Mind (novel) All in the Mind (novel) All in the Mind is a 2008 novel by Alastair Campbell, the former Director of Communications and Strategy for the British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The book is Campbell's debut novel and draws heavily on his own experiences of depression and alcoholism. The story concerns a few days in the life of a psychiatrist, and a selection of his patients. Campbell has admitted that the story is partly autobiographical, although in an article in "The Times" on 30 October 2008 he wrote, '. . . though it is by me, it is not about me,
Alastair Campbell Europe, giving his insights and experience to a wide range of organisations, businesses and conferences. Campbell continues to act as a freelance advisor to a number of governments and political parties including Edi Rama Prime Minister of Albania, whose Socialist coalition won a landslide at the 2013 Albanian election. In June 2017, Rama was re-elected with an even larger mandate, and invited Campbell to continue to act as an adviser for his second term in office. In July 2017, he was invited to speak at the French National Assembly to the newly elected MPs of President Emmanuel Macron's victorious En