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The slow lane: the cruel cost of the crisis

25 July 2014

The true scale of the neglect of mental health in Britain is laid bare in Thrive, a remarkable and passionately argued new book by economics professor Lord Richard Layard and the clinical psychologist David Clark, which my colleague Martin Wolf wrote about earlier this month. ''While nearly everyone who is physically ill gets treatment,'' write Layard and Clark, ''two in three of those who are mentally ill do not.'' This sounds shocking enough but it is made more indefensible by the fact that effective and relatively inexpensive treatments exist. These are various kinds of therapy, including cognitive behavioural therapy - the favourite of Layard and Clark - and, in some cases, drugs.

This article was published in The Financial Times on July 25, 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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Richard Layard webpage
David Clark webpage
Wellbeing Programme webpage

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