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Guardian:
Come on people, play the game!

9 November 2013

The last government's happiness tsar, LSE economist Richard Layard, recommended cognitive behavioural therapy to reduce the cost to the NHS of depression. Where do you stand on happiness-enhancing CBT? ''Playing games can contribute to making you happy, perhaps even without therapy.''

This article was published in the Guardian on November 9, 2013
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Related publications
How Mental Illness Loses out in the NHSA, Mental Health Policy Group, June 2012
The Depression Report. A New Deal for Depression and Anxiety Disorders, The Centre for Economic Performance's Mental Health Policy Group, June 2006

Related links
Richard Layard webpage
Wellbeing Programme webpage
Mental Health research webpage

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