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Why more psychological therapy would cost nothing

David M. Clark and Richard Layard


To tackle the huge problem of mental illness, England has launched a large programme of psychological therapy, which is being watched worldwide. The authors argue that it costs nothing, due to savings on welfare benefits and physical healthcare. The article is based on the recent book Thrive: The power of evidence-based psychological therapies (Layard and Clark, 2014b).


1 November 2015


Frontiers in Psychology 6(NOV) 2015


DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01713

http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01713

This Journal article is published under the centre's Community Wellbeing programme.