The Art of Healing

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Lost Connections

by Johann Hari

ward-winning journalist Johann Hari has suffered from depression since he was a child, and started taking antidepressants when he was a teenager. He was told that his problems were caused by a chemical imbalance in his brain. As an adult, and trained in the social sciences, he began to investigate whether this was true, and he learned that almost everything we have been told about depression and anxiety is wrong. Around the world, Hari found social scientists who were uncovering evidence that

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