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Five minutes with Richard Layard: 'Mental illness is the biggest single cause of misery in our society'

10 July 2014

In an interview with Joel Suss, editor of the British Politics and Policy blog, Richard Layard discusses the importance of combating mental illness and his new book, Thrive: The Power of Evidence-Based Psychological Therapies, which he co-authored with David Clark. Both authors will be presenting the findings and arguments of their new book tonight at a public event at the LSE with Andrew Marr.

This article was published online by the LSE British Politics and Policy Blog on July 10, 2014
Link to blog post here

Related Publications
Thrive: the Power of Evidence Based Psychological Therapies, Richard Layard and David M Clark, Penguin, July 2014

Related Links
Richard Layard webpage
David Clark webpage
Wellbeing Programme webpage

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