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Thrive: the Power of Evidence-Based Psychological Therapies review - 'a punchy polemic on mental health'

27 July 2014

One in three families contains someone who suffers mental illness, with one in 10 children having diagnosable mental disorders - yet fewer than one-third of these people receive treatment. Such shocking statistics litter the pages of Thrive, the latest blast by former ''happiness tsar'' Richard Layard in conjunction with David Clark, professor of psychology at Oxford University. Lord Layard is a celebrated labour economist who deserves plaudits for promoting the concept of placing wellbeing alongside wealth as a government goal - an idea promoted by David Cameron in opposition, then sadly shunted aside in office after coming under fire from critics who failed to understand the issues. The book's central point is that the failure to place mental illness on a par with physical illness costs the country dearly.

This article was published in The Observer on July 27, 2014
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Related Publications
Thrive: the Power of Evidence Based Psychological Therapies, Richard Layard and David M Clark, Penguin, July 2014
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Related Links
Richard Layard webpage
David Clark webpage
Wellbeing Programme webpage

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