The Columbus Despatch:
Burgeoning talk-therapy program free for all in England
30 July 2017
LONDON — England is in the midst of a unique national experiment, the world’s most ambitious effort to treat depression, anxiety and other common mental illnesses.
…In 2005 David Clark, a professor of psychology at Oxford University, and economist Richard Layard, a member of the House of Lords, concluded that providing therapy to people like Oliver made economic sense.
″We made the case that, just on lost work alone, the program would pay for itself,″ Layard said in an interview in his office at the London School of Economics.
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